Children tied up by attacker break free to save stabbed Mum
A MUM was stabbed five times after her ex-partner broke into her home and tied up her kids – but was saved after the hero youngsters broke free to alert cops.
Jealous Darren Ward, 37, launched the frenzied attack on the 39 year-old after she returned from seeing her new partner.
But her life was saved after her kids, aged just 12 and 11, struggled free and called police to the Halesowen home.
Ward is due to be sentenced later this month for the attempted murder, aggravated burglary and false imprisonment.
The spurned boyfriend broke into the property on July 5, 2008, and lay in wait after tying up the youngsters. When their mum returned she was dragged upstairs, locked in a bedroom and repeatedly stabbed, suffering deep wounds to her spleen, abdomen, a lung and both arms.
Yet her brave kids managed to break loose and climbed on to an outside flat roof to escape Ward.
The 11 year-old boy dialled 999 on a mobile while his elder sister bravely went back into the house, past the bedroom where her mother was being attacked, to let in two female cops.
PCs Hayley Humphries and Linda Tooth arrived within minutes and kicked down the bedroom door to be confronted by a demented-looking Ward.
As his victim lay on the bed crying out that she had been stabbed, the brave officers used CS spray and batons to overpower and arrest the 37 year-old, who was lashing out with the blade.
The mum, who is understood to have suffered domestic violence at the hands of Ward in the past, was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and has made a full recovery.
The two officers have since picked up a bravery award and are in line for an official commendation from West Midlands Police – and the force may nominate the two children for a similar honour.
