A
nurse stabbed to death in broad daylight is thought to have been killed by one
of her mental health patients.
Naudel
Turner, 42, was attacked soon after she left work on Wednesday afternoon.
The
churchgoing mother of two had screamed at her assailant to ‘leave me alone’
seconds before he stabbed her in the neck multiple times with a kitchen knife.
Yesterday
it emerged that as Mrs Turner slumped to the ground, some bystanders filmed the
scene on their mobile phones.
Witnesses
described how after the frenzied attack, her assailant calmly rolled a
cigarette as he stood over Mrs Turner’s body, wiped his hands on her clothing
and said: ‘I told you, I told you.’
He
was then seen yanking the blade out of her neck and placing it on her chest as
she lay dying on the busy street in Tottenham, North London.
Police
arrested the man at the scene. Mrs Turner was taken to hospital, but doctors
were unable to save her.
Her
husband William, 61, is said to be ‘shell-shocked’.
He
appeared distraught at the couple’s terrace home in Fulham, West London,
yesterday. When asked about his wife, he said only: ‘She used to live here. But
not any longer.’
A
close friend and neighbour, who asked not to be named, said Mrs Turner ‘doted’
on the couple’s sons, aged 22 and 19.
‘She
just loved her family to pieces,’ they added.
‘They’re
upstanding members of the community. It’s a massive shock. She was such a gentle
woman. She’s an angel.’
The friend revealed Mrs Turner’s attacker was
thought to be an ex-patient of hers. 
‘I think this must have been a nutter who’s been
let down by aftercare because of the cuts to the NHS,’ they said.
‘Someone that can stab an innocent person who has
been helping them is clearly not all there. Who could stab a wife, a mother, a
community nurse? How can anybody do that and roll a cigarette over her dead
body?’
She said of Mrs Turner’s husband: ‘He is
shell-shocked. It is just so raw. He’s not sleeping.’
Witnesses said Mrs Turner had just left Castle View Surgery in Tottenham when
she was accosted by a man who started a ‘blazing row’.
One woman said the nurse screamed ‘leave me alone’
and ‘froze in fear’ as the knifeman struck. He then wiped his bloody hands on
her clothes, saying: ‘I told you, I told you.’
Another witness added: ‘I heard the screaming so I
went over to see what was happening.
‘I saw the woman lying on her back with neck
wounds. There was blood everywhere. There was a man stood a few feet away from
her against the railings. I asked him if he was okay, but he didn’t answer.
‘I looked at her and she was still breathing. A kitchen knife was laying on her
chest. It wasn’t embedded, it had just been placed there.
‘I was leaning over her and she was looking down.
Then she looked up at me, took a breath, and shut her eyes.
‘Two blokes came over and wrestled the guy to the
ground and sat on him until the police came.’
Staff at Mrs Turner’s workplace refused to discuss
whether her attacker was a former mental health patient, but police said
the possibility was being explored.
One colleague, Dr Fariba Azarian, said they were
‘shocked and distraught’.
‘She was an absolutely lovely, lovely lady,’ she
said. ‘One of the most professional and caring people that I have seen. She was
somebody who would go out of her way to help people and patients. She was very,
very kind.’
Scotland Yard appealed yesterday for those seen
recording at the scene to come forward.
Detective Chief Inspector Noel McHugh said: ‘Mrs
Turner was a hard-working mother of two boys. We now believe she knew her
attacker.
‘I would like to directly appeal to anyone who may
have captured images or footage before and after the incident to contact us
immediately. In particular we would like to speak to a black male who was
wearing a white tracksuit top who witnesses saw taking images at the scene.
‘I would appeal to him or anyone else to contact us
with the footage or images they took as a matter of urgency, and not to
upload them to the internet or share them with friends as it may harm our
investigation.’
Dariusz Miakienko, 46, was last night charged with
murder. He will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court later today.
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