Harry Lobek, co -founder of London Shell co In Swain’s Lane, Highgate, in mid -one busy night, yesterday customers (April 10) when violence broke out on the street.
The businessman described how moments later he found himself helping a young man who had stabbed his leg.
Lobek said: “While I served people outside the store, there was an altercation on the street.
“I thought they were children who moved because they were quite young, but some threw a fire exciter on a bus stop and a client said ‘Oh no, I don’t think they are the brass children’.”
Outside, Mr. Lobek said he saw a young man and his girlfriend with an older man “screaming and screaming” before leaving in a car.
The businessman thought everything had calmed down, but then the girl traveled in her store, shouting “my baby, my baby.”
He grabbed the keys, closed and followed her next to Grocery Superette, where the staff had locked a topic in the toilet.
He said: “I entered Superette and at that time I was completely deserted. I put myself behind the counter and the guy leaned down and bleeding.”
It presents the pressure on the wound with towels and told the victim that “he sat strongly until the police come.”
Lobek said emergency services arrived “very fast” and have called the victim to the hospital.
But talking to him Ham and tall Today, he reflected on what had suddenly happened.
He said: “I don’t know where everyone came from.
“I think it’s really random. It’s terrible and scares, but I think I could speak anywhere. Altercations between two slimers, I don’t think you can control that child of anger. It was very volatile, it is not a prevention of the day.
“My guests said they never had the face of anyone so contorted of anger. It was very violent.”
Lobek, who grew up in Camden and Hampstead and attended Highgate School, added: “People said you should not wait on Swain’s lane, but that the stabbing occur in Archway, in Camden; we are in the district of Camden.
“Swain’s Lane has the appearance of being in Highgate and almost feeling like the field with bunch from Tudor buildings, but is still part of London.
“London has a very bad knife crime problem, everyone knows.”
The Metropolitan Police has been contacted to comment.
