Eyewitnesses tell of terror as Nottingham incident unfolded across city
Eyewitnesses have told of the terror they saw as three people were found dead in Nottingham this morning.
A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two people were found dead in the street in Ilkeston Road just after 4am today.
A third man was found dead in Magdala Road, Nottinghamshire Police said.
Another three people are in hospital after someone tried to run them over in a van in Milton Street, in what police believe is a connected incident.
Armed police are at the scene.
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One man, who did not give his name, said he heard "awful, blood-curdling screams" and looked out of his window to see a "black guy dressed all in black with a hood and rucksack grappling with some people".
A white with a smashed windscreen behind a police cordon (PA)The witness told the BBC he saw the double stabbing on Ilkeston Road, close to the junction with Bright Street, at around 4am.
He told the broadcaster: “She was screaming ‘Help!’ I just wish I’d shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant.
“I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing – four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.
“The girl stumbled towards a house and didn’t move. The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that’s where they found her.
Eyewitness Lynn Haggitt (@Channel4News/Twitter)“I’d say it all happened within five or six minutes. The attacker then just walked off up Ilkeston Road towards town, as calm as anything.”
The man said he called the police who arrived within five minutes, before paramedics tried to revive the pair for 40 minutes.
Other eyewitnesses described the moment they saw police detain a suspect in a different part of the city.
One witness who filmed the moment that appeared to show the arrest told GB News: "We woke up this morning at about 5.30am to what sounded like gunshots.
Police detain a suspect next to a van"We ran to the window and there was armed police running out of what looked like an undercover car. And then the suspect was tasered and dragged out by them and then arrested.
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“We didn’t actually see any gunshots but it certainly sounded like them and the glass was all smashed in the van.”
Meanwhile, Kane Brady, a student at the University of Nottingham, told the same news outlet he saw a knife being taken from a white van after a man was arrested outside his house on Maples Street.
Mr Brady said: “We woke up to shouts of "armed police" and what… sounded like some very loud noises, what sounded like gunshots – it was that loud.
A white van pictured within a police cordon in Bentinck Road (Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)“I looked out the bedroom window and saw Tasers. I saw a man being dragged out (of the van) and pinned to the floor.
“I saw him getting arrested, him trying to resist.
“I then later saw when they opened the van, I saw a large knife being pulled out and then straight away that’s when police closed off both roads, both Maples Street and Bentinck Road.”
Witness Lynn Haggitt told BBC News she was feeling “shaky” after describing what she saw elsewhere this morning.
A forensic tent on Magdala Road (PA)She described how a white van pulled up beside her at 5.30am on her way to work near the Theatre Royal: “He looked in his mirror, saw a police car behind him, he then quickened up, there were two people, two in the corner, he went straight into these two people.”
“The woman went on the kerb, the man went up in the air, there was such a bang, I wish I never saw it, it’s really shaken me up.
“I went over, perhaps I shouldn’t have gone over but I wanted to see if I could help.
“He (the van driver) backed up after he hit… and drove up Parliament Street.
Armed police at the scene (PA)“The woman was sitting up on the kerb, she looked OK. The man was laying down, but then he got up, sat on the side waiting for an ambulance,” Ms Haggitt said, adding “I can’t believe he was able to get up after the head wound”.
When asked if she thought the collision was deliberate, Ms Haggitt went on to tell Channel 4 News: “I don’t think I should say that, but to me he went straight into them, he didn’t even bother to turn, just went back straight into them.”
When asked if the people hit were hurt badly, she said that a man appeared to have a head injury.
There is a large police presence in the city centre (PA)“They did get him to his feet,” she added, but said of the woman who was hit: “She was sitting up on the curb, to me she looked OK”.
“I was there for 15 minutes and there was no ambulance. One of the policemen, I think, did first aid. He looked after a man on the floor.”
Police cordoned off around 400 yards of the scene at Ilkeston Road with tape, and what appeared to be medical kit was scattered across the road.
Two forensic officers arrived and appeared to dedicate the majority of their time at a bathroom and plumbing business called Willbond.
A police forensics officer on Ilkeston Road (PA)The forensic officers eventually left the scene on foot with a black crate and large plastic bag.
A resident on Ilkeston Road said a policewoman was “banging on my door” at around 5am asking for any CCTV footage.
The man, who asked to only be known as Wayne, said he was told the incident happened around 4.10am before being asked if he had witnessed anything.
“I didn’t see or hear anything, but I’m not surprised this sort of thing has happened around here,” he added.
A map of the incidents across the city centre (Daily Mirror)Chief Constable Kate Meynell said: “This is an horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people.
“We believe these three incidents are all linked and we have a man in custody.
“This investigation is at its early stages and a team of detectives is working to establish exactly what has happened.
“We ask the public to be patient while inquiries continue. At this time, a number of roads in the city will remain closed as this investigation progresses.”
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