Eccentric, loner

UK -- A police worker fighting for life after being stabbed in the neck joined the force “to do something worthwhile”, his wife said yesterday.

She told how husband Gary quit his theatre boss job to become a police community support officer.

Gary Etchells, 47, who had no power to arrest, was knifed while helping evict a former karate teacher from his rented home. The tenant is regarded locally as an eccentric and a loner.

The dad-of-four had emergency surgery and was said to be critical but improving last night.

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