Knife attack at Birmingham department store
- Title
- Knife attack at Birmingham department store
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
- TX Date
- 8 Dec 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:02:20
- Description
- Olivia MacLeod reports on a police investigation into a frenzied knife attack in Birmingham where a 30 year-old local man has been arrested in connection with the incident. About 15 people were slashed around the head and neck when the knifeman rampaged through Rackhams department store in the city centre. Includes vox pop with eyewitnesses; Steve Evans, West Midlands Ambulance service; Detective Superintendent David Baker. (The assailant was later named as David Morgan).
- Contributors
- Olivia MacLeod; David Baker; Steve Evans
- Keywords
- Crime; Violence; Birmingham; Shops; Assault; Violence against the person; Department stores; Edged weapons; Rackhams; David Morgan
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LBC/IRN, "Knife attack at Birmingham department store". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0007300039008 (Accessed 20 Jun 2025)