Episode #40 2009 - "The HOLLAND PARK TAXI STABBING"
In 1963 a brutal stabbing of a taxi driver reslted in hundreds of teenagers being questioned by the police.
KNIFE ATTACK scene in Oates Avenue, Holland Park, showing where Spencer stopped his taxi and was attacked, where the car stopped after slowing to the opposite footpath when the two attackers fled down Hector Road, and from where Spencer staggered across the road to a house seeking help. Source: The Courier Mail, 22 September 1963
HOLLAND PARK attack victim David Spencer of Camp Hill with nurse Polly Perkins has x-rays to determine the extent of his chest injuries Source: The Courier Mail, 22 September 1963
BLOOD-STAINED notebook which was in Spencer's left shirt pocket and which he believes saved his life. Source: The Courier Mail, 22 September 1963