
"I was worried I was going to lose him yesterday, but thank God he is improving today," she added. His wife Andie Etchells yesterday described him as a "caring, generous and genuine man". The Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said: "The 47-year-old PCSO, Gary Etchells, who was stabbed in the neck in Stalybridge on Monday has been moved out of intensive care at Tameside General Hospital and his condition is currently described as improving."

He arrived before the police constables and spoke briefly with housing officers, bailiffs and a man moments before he was stabbed.Ī 63-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of Section 18 wounding remains in police custody. Mr Etchells had been due to meet police and bailiffs at a house in Stalybridge to oversee the eviction of a tenant. Blunkett bobby knifed in the neck during evictionĪ police spokeswoman said he had been transferred from intensive care and his condition was described as "improving".Officer stabbed during eviction is named.

Officer stabbing proves 'Blunkett's bobbies' system fatally flawed.A Police Community Support Officer who was left fighting for his life in hospital after he was stabbed in the neck at a house eviction was moved out of intensive care on Wednesday, police said.įather-of-four Gary Etchells, 47, from Glossop, Derbyshire, underwent two emergency operations after he was knifed while overseeing the eviction of a man from a property in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, on Monday.
