Couple saved stab victim who cried ‘please don’t let me die’ on their doorstep
A couple was horrified when a man covered in blood knocked on their door and begged for help.
Harleen and Rex Werewolf were at home in North Shields, near Newcastle, in the early hours of Saturday morning when they heard someone banging on their door and shouting.
‘I heard the front door and I heard somebody say, “Help me I have been stabbed, someone please help me,”‘ Harleen said.
‘From the tone of the voice I knew someone was in pain.’
The couple, who are engaged and have legally changed their surname, were up listening to music when the drama unfolded at around 3am.
Harleen, 28, opened the door to her house in Spencer Street and an injured stranger staggered inside and slumped against the wall.
‘His clothes were covered in blood,’ she said. ‘My mind was all over the place. I told Rex to call an ambulance and I took him into the front room.
‘I grabbed a tea towel and told him to hold that where the wound was and to put pressure on it.’
She then realised he could not even do that – and she would have to take immediate action to save his life.
Harleen recalled some of the first aid training she did as a sea cadet to attempt to stop the bleeding.
She said: ‘I sat him down on the sofa and opened his shirt. I saw a slash wound and I took the tea towel and put pressure on it.
‘I don’t know how I stayed so calm, but I just did. I just didn’t like the idea of someone dying if we could help.
‘Hopefully somebody is still breathing because of what we did.’
Meanwhile her fiancé Rex, 33, was on the phone talking to a 999 operator.
He said: ‘There was a massive pool of blood on the floor. At one point his head slumped to the side and I thought he had died.’
Police and paramedics arrived around 10 minutes later and rushed the victim to hospital.
Rex added: ‘He kept saying over and over again: “I don’t want to die, please don’t let me die.”
‘Harleen saved that man’s life. I was so proud of her. I love her to bits.’
Witnesses believe the man was stabbed at nearby Alexander Scott Park and staggered to the street injured.
Harleen thinks he may have come to her door because it was the only property which still had a light on at that time of night.
Police say they were called by the ambulance service at around 4am on Saturday.
Officers have described the victim’s injuries as ‘serious’ and ‘consistent with a stabbing’.
The 35-year-old, who has not yet been named, remains in hospital and no one has been arrested.
Detectives from Northumbria Police are appealing for witnesses, and also want to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage from the time.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the police on 101.
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