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A van driver who was brutally stabbed by two hitmen still has no idea why he was attacked.<\/p>\n
When he heard a knock on his door in the middle of the night, Darren Barden assumed it was a mate telling him he\u2019d overslept and was late for his shift. But when he opened the door, Darren was confronted by two hitmen who silently nodded at each other before subjecting him to a frenzied knife attack. <\/p>\n
Within moments, he was on his hallway floor. \u201cI could just feel my head being battered\u2026I didn't know I'd been stabbed all over my body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Doctors later counted at least 22 separate knife wounds on Darren\u2019s head and body, but there may have been many more where the attackers had plunged the blades in over and over again at the same spot.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI had seven serious wounds in my skull,\u201d Darren told podcaster Dodge Woodall. \u201cI had really bad one in my back ,where you could put your whole hand in\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI had cuts on my legs , across my bum, and across my chest. What they do is, they put two blades in a Stanley knife and separate them with a match so where it cuts, you can't be sewn up. I could just feel my head being battered constantly, but I didn't know at the time that I'd been stabbed all over my body"<\/p>\n
The attack lasted three or four minutes. A witness dialled 999 from a nearby callbox at 12.03am and it was 12.06am when Darren managed to drag himself to his phone and call 999 himself.<\/p>\n
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Darren\u2019s wife Wendy, had been upstairs with their one-year-old with their son, George who was teething at the time. \u201cShe came downstairs in her bare feet, walking through puddles of my blood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The horrific incident took place on October 7, 1996, and to this day Darren has no idea who his attackers were, or why he had been targeted. \u201cI\u2019d actually crashed my van during the day,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my last day with one particular company and I was starting a new job the following morning. When I say crashed, I just bumped into someone in Redbridge in East London \u2013 no great shakes no dramas but he didn\u2019t want to take any details, because I don\u2019t think it was his car, and just shot off.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A police investigation turned up no clues as to the identity of the hitmen that had stabbed Darren, and no reason why anyone would want to attack him. He admitted that he knew one or two petty criminals in his area, but wasn\u2019t involved any kind of villainy himself.<\/p>\n
Darren added: \u201cWhen the police first started investigating because of where I lived, they judged me. It was a crappy old estate yeah in Essex that was known for lots of wrong\u2018uns, and I think they judged me on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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But Darren maintains that he wasn\u2019t involved in any sort of criminality. But afterwards, he said: \u201cThere were some sort of notorious people who lived in the area.<\/p>\n
"After the event they suddenly thought \u2018that's a little bit out of our league\u2019 and suddenly everyone was saying hello to me in the street \u2013 all these naughty people started thinking I was someone special.\u201d<\/p>\n
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