Northamptonshire PC body camera footage shows knife attack

Footage shows Lee Vickers repeatedly thrusting the knife towards officers

Footage of a Northamptonshire Police officer being attacked by a man wielding an eight-inch knife has been released by the force.

The images from PC Alex Prentice's body-worn camera shows Lee Vickers thrusting the knife towards officers, catching the officer's protective vest.

PC Prentice said it was the first time he had been hit on the stab vest.

"If the knife had been two to three inches higher it would have caught me in the neck," he said.

Vickers pulled out a knife he had concealed in his trousers

The officer was attacked after he and a colleague were called to a domestic incident in Corby in March 2014.

"It didn't come in as a blue light emergency and there was no mention of any weapons," he said.

"The man turned round to face both of us and he pulled out an eight-inch carving knife he had concealed in his trousers."

In the camera footage PC Prentice is heard to repeatedly shout "put down the knife".

Because of evidence caught on the camera Vickers took an early guilty plea and received a 43 month jail sentence.