Man sentenced after horror knife attacks in Bow

A MAN HAS been given an indefinite hospital order after carrying out an indiscriminate knife attack on two GP surgeries in Bow at the end of last year. He had bought the weapons online.

Jeffrey Shing-lok Lueng, 41, of Guerin Square, Malmesbury Road, E3 was sentenced when he appeared at Snaresbrok Crown Court last week. The Court heard that Leung had not been know to the police before the index incidents but he was know to have had a history of mental illness.

The attacks took place on 18th December. Leung began at the Tredegar GP Practice at around 11am. He entered the building and began attacking people at random. He lunged at people in the waiting area, while people waiting to see a doctor tried to defend themselves with chairs or tried to get away. Two men in their 30s sustained serious injuries: one had his neck slashed and another was stabbed in the chest and stomach.

Leung then left the building – going on to the nearby St Stephens Health Centre, where he injured to women. A woman in her 70s was stabbed in the neck, chest and hand and a woman in her 50s was stabbed in the band and chest. A receptionist managed to call 999 – and then Leung calmed down, dropped his knives and waited, in the waiting room, for police to arrive.

DC Megan Bushell of the Central East CID, led the investigation, and said, “Leung has unfortunately suffered from severe mental health disorders in the past and this has led him to carry out a series of sustained violent attacks. All of the victims and witnesses involved in this horrific incident have been left traumatised.”

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