Darren Harris syringe attack victim says ‘ordeal not over’

The owner of a record store suffered a heart trial after Bee stabbed with a syringe full of a powerful muscle relaxant who says he never knows who was attacked.

Gary Lewis, 65, almost died when he was injected with Rocuronio by the 58 -year -old nurse Darren Harris in Betterdaze in Northallerton on July 2 last year.

Harris, who must be sentenced later, was declared guilty of murder attempt after a trial in Leeds Crown Court, but did not offer any explanation for the attack.

Speaking to the BBC, Lewis said: “He leaves you with the dilemma, sometimes border with paranoia, about why someone would go to those extensive.”

The day of the attack, Harris traveled from his home in Middlesbrough, where she worked as a nurse at the James Cook hospital, to Northallerton, where he stabbed Mr. Lewis in the rear before leaving the store.

Lewis said he had followed Harris outside to face him, but collapsed a short time later.

CCTV images show it leaving the store to protest with Harris, before merchants sell to their help and the police get to stop Harris.

“Apparently I died on the path, my heart stopped on the path,” he said.

“I regained consciousness and tell me that I had a second heart trial in the ambulance.”

Lewis said they had been told that it was his decision to leave the store, which is reduced to his training 30 years in the police force, which saved his life.

“Doctors are absolutely safe,” he said.

“If I had stayed where I was, I would have attacked my heart with anyone around me and the next person to walk in the store would have found me.”

When Harris was arrested, he repeatedly said that the syringe had a leg full of water, but then it was discovered that he had a leg full of Rocuronium.

Harris did not give a trial for evidence, but in a police interview he said that Lewis had expelled his leg after an argument.

CCTV images showed such an altercation and no other reason for the attack has been presented.

Lewis said: “No one in the family can understand it. He is baffled to the police, he has baffled lawyers, he is baffled in the court, he is probably bewildered in the hospital.

“I will not beg with the guy, but if he has any humanity, he will give me an explanation.

“It was random, it could be more deliberate and attacked. If you will ever discover it, I almost have to deal with the possibility that it cannot and be a psychological impact.”

Lewis said he was back at work a few days after the attack, but said he had fought with the idea that he had not left the store, his heart attack could never have been revealed as an attempt to murder.

“The drug cleans its system, so I would have died if I had stayed in the store,” he said.

“He would have disappeared and nobody would have looked for a pin puncture, he would have bone well as a heart trial.

“But the psychology of it, there can be no many victims of such a crime that have to return to the crime scene every day and sit in the same seat where you were attacked.

“I don’t think it will ever be done and do it unless it is a reason and I can’t imagine what that reason would be.

“You stretch your brain, but you almost have to think about that too much because it is possible that you never get an explanation.”

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said Harris’s employment was completed in August 2024.

He said that a review of the storage of medicines, including controlled medications, in cardiac theaters and general theaters was carried out in light of the incident and concluded that “all theaters were completely completely with national orientation.”