Clapham attack: 'I thought three-year-old victim was going to die in my arms'
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The woman - who wishes to remain anonymous - told the BBC she went to hospital with the child after seeing her "being slammed to the ground".
Speaking to the BBC, the witness said she saw Ezedi drag the younger girl from a car before slamming her into the ground twice - and running off.
"I heard a bit of shouting and I could hear it louder. So I ran outside. But I was just in shock. I first thought there had been a car crash or something," she said.
She continued: "The suspect slammed what I thought was a car seat or a bag to the floor after jumping from a white car.
"The sound, the thud, the scream, that's when I realised it was a little girl being slammed to the ground, like a WWF wrestling move.
"Then I saw two men jump on the suspect and try to pin him down, before he managed to get free and run off. So I just grabbed the three-year-old girl and took her into my arms before rushing her into the nearby hotel, where her older sister and mother were. Her mother was hysterical."
The resident […] tried to reassure the three-year-old, who was barely conscious and whose head was "red and swollen".
It looked like the attacker was trying to "crack her head open", she said, adding: "It gives me shivers thinking about what he did."
She continued: "When I picked her up - the youngest child - she was trying to go to sleep. I knew from watching 24 Hours in A&E that the best thing to do for head injuries is to place somebody into the recovery position, so that's what I did.
"But before I did, she just went limp. I thought the youngest of the two girls was about to die in my arms. Luckily the three-year-old woke up and started to call for her mum.
"I took her to the waiting ambulance, she was clinging to me and didn't want to go, so I escorted her to hospital in the back of the ambulance, talking to her the entire way."
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A witness who came to the rescue of an assaulted three-year-old tells the BBC she rushed her to hospital.
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