Police were called to a Riverslea Rd address last week after a man was stabbed with an axe. Photo / Warren Buckland
Police were called to a Riverslea Rd address last week after a man was stabbed with an axe. Photo / Warren Buckland
It is the phone call no mother wants to receive – a call that informs you that your child has been stabbed while you're more than 2000km away across the Tasman.
But for one mum it became a reality, when last Wednesday evening her sister broke the news that her22-year-old son had been stabbed and was undergoing emergency surgery at Hawke's Bay Hospital.
The Hastings man, who did not wish to be named, had been enjoying his first night in a new flat on Riverslea Rd when two attackers allegedly jumped the fence and plunged an axe into his chest.
"It was a huge shock. He was a status one on the way to hospital," said the mother, who also did not wish to be named.
After finding out at 7pm Brisbane time, she frantically booked a one-way ticket to Hawke's Bay - only to discover first she had made a costly $700 error and then hours later while about to board her flight found out her son was now in Wellington.
"[The airline] charged another $354 when I realised I made an error - an error I made crying my eyes out and trying to see a screen. All up $700 one way. But an air hostess called Kelly was fantastic when she saw me sitting in my seat with my glasses on and still crying. She really looked after me."
She has not yet booked a return flight.
Her son sustained two broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a cut to his heart in the attack.
