One person dead, five injured in stabbing rampage

A MAN with a history of mental illness was last night being held by police after a stabbing spree left one person dead and five injured.

The apparently random attacks took place during an hour-long “terrible morning” of violence in north London. The 30-year-old knife man was eventually caught outside his Harringay home in the blood-spattered red Hyundai car he had used to drive from one victim to the next.

Police Chief Superintendent Simon O’Brien said: “It seems the suspect was getting out of his vehicle, picking people at random, stabbing them and then getting back in his vehicle. We don’t know the motivation for the attacks at this stage.