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 afterhe 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 bloodstained (top) and the vehicle s driver, aged in his 50s, failed to s