A CRAZED knifeman has admitted stabbing a mum in the face as she walked with her baby in a pram days after being released from jail.
Josephine Conlon was slashed in the face and neck seven times by Mark Brazant as she returned home from a bakery in Streatham, South London.
The 44-year-old today dramatically changed his plea and admitted attempted murder ahead of a potential retrial.
Brazant had only been released from jail six days before the attack for three offences of battery and one of common assault.
On December 30, the paranoid schizophrenic “deliberately armed himself with a kitchen knife” and pounced on Josephine.
Horrific CCTV shown to court showed the chilling moment Josephine crossed paths with Brazant – causing him to follow her.
The thug then shoved the new mum forcefully in the back as she feared she would be raped.
She fell into a driveway as the pram containing her baby daughter rolled on the kerb and became wedged next to a parked car.
Recalling the horror attack, Josephine said: “I remember thinking he had pushed me into the driveway because he was going to rape me.
“Then he didn’t, he just started hitting me.
“I realised I was being stabbed. I was screaming a lot because I was not in the road so I wanted somebody to hear me.
“I was ducking and trying to get away and trying to get up on to my feet.
“I could feel blood. The adrenaline took away pain but I could feel things dripping.”
Josephine was discovered covered in blood by a passerby, who had ran out when he heard her screams.
She was rushed to hospital where she was treated for seven stab wounds including to her salivary gland.
Brazant walked into Wandsworth Police Station two days later carrying a knife saying he had “stabbed a person on the street two days earlier”.
He had disappeared following his release from Thameside jail on Christmas Eve.
Brazant had been due to live at a supported house for people with mental health problems but staff raised the alarm when he failed to show up.
The fiend had been banged up for a string of horror attacks on lone women but despite his violent past, supervisors had failed to meet him at the prison gates.
He carried out his first attack in 2017 when he hit a woman with a crutch at Lambeth North underground station.
And on November 26 last year, he attacked four women on the same day in a rampage of violence in the capital.
He grabbed one of his victims by the neck after accusing her of smiling at him and punched another for laughing.
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