Mum found stabbing victim covered in blood during park walk with children

A woman has described how she ran to the aid of a blood-soaked man who had been stabbed in the forehead.

She first saw the man while walking through Boultham Park in Lincoln with her children, at about 7.30pm on July 4.

After asking someone to take her daughters out of view, the woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, tended to the man’s injuries while he waited for an ambulance.

She told Lincolnshire Live: ‘The man told me what had happened. I didn’t want my daughters to see – there was blood everywhere.

‘He was so much of a state that he was down then he was up then he was down and then up. I sat him down. He had been booted in the side. He had a massive bruise where his ribs were broken.’

The woman stated that she didn’t see the incident which caused the man’s injuries.

She said: ‘I was holding his wound together. He had been stabbed with a breadknife with a serrated edge in the forehead and I could see the marks from the knife.

‘I had to get people to get me towels and water. I was holding the wound together. It looked worse than it was because there was blood everywhere.

‘Once the bleeding had calmed down I could see it was not life-threatening and that he needed stitches.’

Asked what she thought about a man being stabbed, she said: ‘I’m angered. My kids live here and I want to be able walk around and take the kids to school and back.’

Lincolnshire Police confirmed that six people, two women aged 30 and four men, all aged between 22 and 45, have since been arrested on suspicion of GBH after the incident.

They also confirmed that a man in his 50s was taken to Lincoln County Hospital with injuries.

Officers attended the incident which happened in St Peter’s Avenue and spilled onto Boultham Park.

The suspects were questioned in custody today.