UK Cops Receive Award for Saving Teen`s Life After Sword Attack

Two armed cops who helped save the life of a teenager who almost had an arm and leg hacked off by sword wielding thugs have been handed awards by the Royal Humane Society.

PCs Stephen Walker and James Rooke found college student Sajakat Hussain in Endicott Road near Villa Park last July with a partially severed arm and leg.

The teen was the victim of a savage sword attack from four masked men and suffered terrible injuries - described by one paramedic as the worst he'd seen in 17 years' service.

However, the quick-thinking PCs used their Fast Aid skills - specialist trauma care all firearms officers are trained in - to apply precise tourniquets and help prevent massive blood loss.

The victim went on to make a full recovery.

A citation read out at the event said: "The officers were part of an armed police unit sent to the incident.

"They quickly assessed the man's injuries and applied trauma care to prevent massive haemorrhage, provided oxygen and helped stabilise him until ambulance crew arrived on the scene.

"Without their intervention the victim would almost certainly have died."

Sajakat's limbs were saved after he was treated by Army medics at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth.

At the time of the Det Chief Insp Simon Wallis, said it would have been a murder investigation if it were not for the intervention of military medical staff.

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