Stabbed backpacker fights back and knifes attacker who tried to rape her

A backpacker is recovering from stab wounds after fighting off a housemate when he allegedly tried to rape her. The 23-year-old Briton saw off an initial attack before the man returned with a knife and stabbed her several times in the neck and chest, police in Sydney said. She escaped from the room and found a knife, which she allegedly used to stab her attacker in the chest before fleeing. Police said the backpacker, who is recovering in hospital, was lucky to be alive.

Luck is the key word and it’s just lucky it didn’t hit a major artery in those alleged attacks and for him as well.

Det Insp Despa Fitzgerald

Police said the victim and her alleged attacker were “possibly acquaintances” but did not know each other well. Witnesses said they heard screams coming from the boarding house in inner-city Redfern where the attack took place. After the woman fled, her friend called police who caught the suspect after a short chase on foot. She needed surgery for a punctured lung, while her alleged attacker, named as Francisco Quibrera Vilaescusa, a 27-year-old Mexican, was under guard in another hospital. Det Insp Despa Fitzgerald, from New South Wales State Police, said: “She did a tremendous act at the time. Obviously her survival instincts kicked in and she was able to remove herself from the situation.”

Heard loud screams, psychotic screams, walked out, seen a girl pushed up against the window, blood coming out of her right hand side, ‘Help me, help me’, and the coppers (police) came and that was it.

Witness Jerry Betrou

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