7/7 police chief knifed on holiday in Shanghai
12 April 2012
A police chief who helped co-ordinate the London response to the 7/7 terrorist attacks has been stabbed while on holiday in Shanghai.
Chief Superintendent George Branagh, 54, was head of operations at the Ministry of Defence police at the time of the 2005 bombings and was praised for his handling of the attacks.
A Ministry of Defence source said: "It was an unprovoked attack. It wasn't a robbery. What the nature of it is, we just don't know yet."
Mr Branagh was today in a stable condition in a hospital in China.
