A sex offender swung a knife at a young mum in a car park while trying to rob a car with her daughter inside. Duncan Johnson demanded Natalie Grimes' handbag and car keys moments after she put her seven-year-old daughter in the car.
The paedophile grabbed his victim by the throat and held a blade above her head as she desperately tried to fight him off. He said "I will f***ing kill you" and brought the blade down just as Ms Grimes' raised an arm to protect herself.
The knife slashed her coat. The mum refused to let Johnson have the keys, fearing that he would abduct her child. Eventually the knifeman fled, chased by two men who had seen the weapon.
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