Stabbed UK mother has baby son

LONDON - British stabbing victim Abigail Witchalls has given birth to a baby boy nearly seven months after she was left paralysed in a knife attack.

Witchalls, 26, gave birth to the baby weighing 2.4kg on Friday afternoon at St George's Hospital Tooting, south London.

"Abigail had a natural birth with very little assistance and did not require a Caesarean section," the family said in a statement. "With help to support her newborn, Abigail has started breast-feeding successfully."

Abigail said: "I've found great strength and comfort in carrying this child over the past few months and it is such a blessing and a joy to now finally see him face to face."

Last April she was knifed in the back of the neck as she pushed her son Joseph home in a buggy along a country lane in Little Bookham, Surrey.

The attack left her paralysed and she spent five months in a specialist spinal cord injury centre at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London.

She was only discharged from hospital earlier this month.

No one has been charged with the attack. A suspect in the case, Richard Cazaly, committed suicide in Scotland on April 30.

- REUTERS

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