Crime reporter(wp/es):
A businessman stabbed by a former employee today hailed as heroes two colleagues who saved his life by wrestling the attacker to the ground.
Lee Stalham, 38, was at his desk preparing for a meeting when Mohammed Himedan walked into his office brandishing a kitchen knife and stabbed him repeatedly.
Mr Stalham, the owner of Ealing-based corporate telecoms firm Your Company Mobiles, was knifed three times in the right arm before he fled towards the stairs. Dutch-born Himedan, 25, gave chase and continued the attack, stabbing him in the kidney.
Account manager Kevin Ofosu-Amaah, 20, tackled Himedan to the ground and customer service manager Albinia Nicholas, 29, pulled Mr Stalham to safety. Mr Stalham said: “I should be dead. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for them.”
Mr Stalham said Himedan walked into his second-floor office, shouted, “F*** you” and began to stab him.
He said Himedan had worked for him for 15 months before he “stopped turning up” in mid-December last year. “He went Awol. It was very mysterious. Then at 9.30am on February 10 he just walked in,” he said.
“He came up to a bank of desks, looked at me and said something like, ‘F*** you’ and plunged the knife into me. It was a deliberate, sustained attack. He was intent on chasing me down the stairs to finish me off. Albinia and Kevin were heroes that day, we will be friends for life.”
Mr Ofosu-Amaah received a deep cut to his hand after trying to wrestle the knife away and was stabbed in the foot as he pinned Himedan to the floor.
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