{"id":119964,"date":"2023-10-09T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=119964"},"modified":"2023-10-09T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T10:04:03","slug":"hitmen-came-to-my-house-and-stabbed-me-22-times-i-never-found-out-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/hitmen-came-to-my-house-and-stabbed-me-22-times-i-never-found-out-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitmen came to my house and stabbed me 22 times \u2013 I never found out why"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A van driver who was brutally stabbed by two hitmen still has no idea why he was attacked.<\/p>\n

    When he heard a knock on his door in the middle of the night, Darren Barden assumed it was a mate telling him he\u2019d overslept and was late for his shift. But when he opened the door, Darren was confronted by two hitmen who silently nodded at each other before subjecting him to a frenzied knife attack. <\/p>\n

    Within moments, he was on his hallway floor. \u201cI could just feel my head being battered\u2026I didn't know I'd been stabbed all over my body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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    Doctors later counted at least 22 separate knife wounds on Darren\u2019s head and body, but there may have been many more where the attackers had plunged the blades in over and over again at the same spot.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cI had seven serious wounds in my skull,\u201d Darren told podcaster Dodge Woodall. \u201cI had really bad one in my back ,where you could put your whole hand in\u2026<\/p>\n

    \u201cI had cuts on my legs , across my bum, and across my chest. What they do is, they put two blades in a Stanley knife and separate them with a match so where it cuts, you can't be sewn up. I could just feel my head being battered constantly, but I didn't know at the time that I'd been stabbed all over my body"<\/p>\n

    The attack lasted three or four minutes. A witness dialled 999 from a nearby callbox at 12.03am and it was 12.06am when Darren managed to drag himself to his phone and call 999 himself.<\/p>\n

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