A man who allegedly used a box cutter to stab his partner, a police officer, and innocent bystanders has been identified as 58-year-old Antony Benson.
Emergency services were called to the Princes Highway, near Old Bush Road, in Engadine, in Sydney’s south, just before 9am on Sunday following reports of a multi-car crash.
Police allege Benson was travelling with his girlfriend, 48, in a white Jaguar when they T-boned a blue Mitsubishi sedan.
He then allegedly stabbed his partner a number of times in the neck and breast, before he allegedly started slashing at onlookers and a NSWÂ Police Officer, before he turned the knife on himself.
Despite his injuries, Benson allegedly tried to flee the scene before he was Tasered by police several hundred metres down the road.Â
He was taken to Liverpool hospital where he remains in a stable condition.
On Monday, he was hit with eight charges relating to the alleged incident.
Those include grievous bodily harm to person with intent to murder (domestic violence), wounding a person with intent to resist arrest, reckless wounding, affray, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The alleged knifeman (pictured) was heard ranting about ‘conspiracy theories’ after the alleged stabbing attack and crash
He was also charged with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm, fail to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing grievous bodily harm, and hinder or resist police officer in the execution of duty.
Benson was refused bail to appear in Sutherland Local Court at 3pm on Monday.Â
The alleged attack played out in front of families as bystanders raced to help the injured.
Cronulla Sharks chairman Steve Mace was one of those who rushed to assist as emergency services made their way to the scene.
He had been driving through Engadine to take his young son to a football final when he witnessed the crash.
Concerned about the occupants, he jumped out of his vehicle and rushed over to the alleged knifeman’s car to help.
‘I heard the guy screaming in the car and then I heard his partner screaming even louder. I tried to open the door and finally jammed it open,’ he told the Daily Telegraph.
Mace said the alleged knifeman was ranting about his female passenger, saying ‘she changed the radio station on him’.Â
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