Paralysed Little Bookham mum Abigail Witchalls can speak again (From Surrey Comet)

Paralysed Little Bookham mum Abigail Witchalls can speak again

8:40am Friday 1st May 2009 in

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Abigail Witchalls, the young mother who was left paralysed after she was stabbed four years ago, has regained the power of speech.

Abigail, a part-time English teacher, was 26 when she was stabbed in the neck as she pushed her baby son along a bridlepath in Little Bookham four years ago. She was on her way to her in-law’s £1m farm house.

She was approached by a man who demanded money and when she refused he stabbed her in the neck and fled.

Police say they would have charged local man Richard Cazaly with the attack, but he committed suicide.

Abigail spent a lengthy period in intensive care able to communicate only by blinking, but gave birth to a healthy second son a few months after the attack.

Over the months and years she has made a gradual recovery to the point where she is able to compile a book on Lourdes, the French town where miracles are said to have taken place.

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