A WOMAN was stabbed by the Streatham terrorist but escaped unhurt as the knife was still in plastic packaging. Rosa – not her real name – ‘spent 20 minutes in hell’ as Sudesh Amman, 20, launched his attack on Sunday, knifing two people before cops shot him dead. The warped jihadi donned a fake suicide […]
A WOMAN was stabbed by the Streatham terrorist but escaped unhurt as the knife was still in plastic packaging.
Rosa – not her real name – ‘spent 20 minutes in hell’ as Sudesh Amman, 20, launched his attack on Sunday, knifing two people before cops shot him dead.
The warped jihadi donned a fake suicide vest and hacked at terrified passers-by with a £3.99 knife he stole from a local shop.
The jihadist’s attack on Streatham High Road was ‘like a movie, said Rosa, who was in a corner shop as Amman struck.
She told the BBC: “Someone could have killed me when I was just going out to the shop.
“He came in and took a knife and he looked like he was leaving the shop. The owner thought he was going to stop by the cashier to pay.
“But… he pushed me, he tried to open and remove the plastic packaging from the knife but he didn’t manage.
“He pushed and he stabbed me but the knife was still covered with plastic.”
Monika Luftner, 51, screamed “he stabbed me” after crazed jihadi Sudesh Amman launched his senseless attack.
The mum, who works at St Bede’s Catholic Infant & Nursery School near Balham, travelled to Streatham with her daughter to meet friends in a cafe.
Rosa saw Amman stab Monika after she ran from the shop.
Rosa, from the Dominican Republic, said: “There was a woman just there removing the lock from her bike.
“He stabbed her in the back on the right-hand side”.
Amman then run up the road shouting, knifing another victim, a man, before cops gunned him down.
Rosa said during the terrifying ordeal she ‘spent 15 to 20 minutes in hell’.
He pushed and he stabbed me but the knife was still covered with plastic
'Rosa'
She added: “I have to go to work and walk around the streets… this is something that stays with you. It’s a really bad trauma.
“You don’t have any enemies and suddenly someone tries to kill you just like that, just because it satisfies them. It’s horrific.”
Dramatic footage showed undercover officers swoop on the terrorist as he lay on the pavement after being shot three times.
The Met Police later said that three people were injured in the deadly attack but one has since been discharged from hospital.
Amman, from Harrow, North London, was sentenced to more than three years in jail in 2018 for committing terror offences.
But he was let-out on automatic release after serving half his sentence – despite concerns he still held extremist views.
A Whitehall source said Amman was released early from prison because there was nothing the authorities could do under existing laws to keep him behind bars.
