A YOUTH worker last night told how he rushed to help a teenager who had been stabbed nine times in the buttocks.

Dayne Daniels, 26, was supervising a session at Blackbird Leys Youth Centre on Wednesday, when a teenager rushed in and shouted that someone had been stabbed.

Mr Daniels and two co-workers ran out into Blackbird Leys Road and discovered the injured boy.

Police said a silver car pulled up outside the community centre, where the youth centre is based, at about 8.15pm and a man jumped out and stabbed the 16-year-old boy.

Mr Daniels said: “We were upstairs in the youth centre and a young person came running in saying: ‘Someone has been stabbed, someone has been stabbed’.

“We ran outside to check it wasn’t any of our young people, and it wasn’t. We stayed because it didn’t seem like anyone else was taking control of the situation.

“We got the pool table cover from the youth centre to make sure he didn’t get cold because he was lying face down and he left leg was covered in blood.

“The paramedics cut off his trousers and there were quite a few wounds on his left leg, maybe 10 or so. Most of them looked quite small, they didn’t look deep.

“But he lost a lot of blood, his left leg was soaked all the way down.

“He wasn’t saying anything. He looked as if he was in shock. People were trying to talk to him, but he wasn’t really responding.”

Mr Daniels said the teenager did not seem to be with any friends at the time of the attack.

He said: “We tried to get first aid and I got some bandages and kept applying pressure to the wounds. I’ve done an emergency first aid course so I knew what to do.”

A police spokesman said CCTV footage was being reviewed.

Det Insp Simon Morton said: “The teenager was stabbed in the buttocks several times and was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, where he remains today. I appeal to anyone who was in Blackbird Leys last night and saw a silver car containing up to four people, or saw the incident take place, to contact police immediately.”

Being stabbed specifically in the buttocks is referred to on the streets as ‘bagging’ and is often connected with drug crime.

But police spokesman Christopher Kearney said: “There is no information at this time to suggest this incident is connected to this type of offence.”

A spokesman for Blackbird Leys Youth Centre said: “This incident was totally unconnected to the youth club or any of its members, however, two youth workers were informed and did go to the aid of the young man and alerted the emergency services.”

Anyone with information should call police on 08458 505505 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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