People rush to help injured police officer after stabbing

A heroic policeman who was stabbed in the head in a ’frenzied’ machete attack as he tried to fight off a knifeman has told his boss he’s ’okay’ (police at the scene, left). The officer will undergo an operation at 10am for the injuries he sustained after he stopped a vehicle in east London. The officer was stabbed after attempting to stop a van at the junction of Coopers Lane and Leyton High Road in Leyton (right). The road was left blood-stained (top) and the vehicle’s driver, aged in his 50s, failed to s