24 HOURS in A&E viewers were shocked to watch the story of a 15-year-old girl who was stabbed while walking to school. Meldred, 15, was walking to school in London with a friend when a stranger came up behind her and stabbed her in the thigh.
The teenager was taken to St George's Hospital in Tooting and doctors gave her an urgent CT scan to see if there was any internal damage.
A paramedic who attended Meldred at the scene described how the teen "only realised she had been stabbed when she saw blood on the floor".
Police response officer PC Harris said hearing the call that a teen had been stabbed was "the last thing I expected to hear". "I've never been to an under 18-year-old who had been stabbed," PC Harris said. "I was trying to get us to the right place as soon as possible, your palms start to get sweaty, you start to maybe shake a little bit because you've got a lot of adrenaline. "Being the first on scene is quite a high pressure feeling.
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