A robber has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after stabbing two officers in London’s West End following a police pursuit.Mohamed Rahman, 25, knifed police constable Joseph Gerrard in the neck and chest – “targeting where the Met (stab) vest did not provide protection” – before stabbing Pc Alannah Mulhall in the arm early on September 16 last year while intoxicated.

A robber who stabbed two police officers after being chased through London’s West End has been jailed for life. Mohamed Rahman, 25, knifed PC Joseph Gerrard in the neck and chest – ‘targeting where the Met (stab) vest did not provide protection’ – and PC Alannah Mulhall in the arm early on September 16 last year while intoxicated.

A police officer who was stabbed five times has told the BBC that he thought he was going to die. The attack on PC Joe Gerrard in central London punctured a lung and left him unable to work for about a year.

A robber has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 20 years after stabbing two officers during a police pursuit in London's West End.

This is the moment police tackle a man armed with a knife before two Met Police officers are stabbed in London’s Leicester Square. Mohamed Rahman, 25, stabbed PC Joseph Gerrard in the head, arm, and chest and PC Alannah Mulhall in the arm early on September 16 last year.