Wife condemns 'cowardly' robbers

Sarah Davies, 29, from Bierley, West Yorkshire, described the three men who stabbed her husband David as he delivered cash to an ATM at a Tesco supermarket in Northgate, Cleckheaton, West Yorks, just before 2pm on Monday, as "cowardly".

Police said they are treating the attack as attempted murder and revealed that Mr Davies, 32, who is still in a critical condition in hospital, was stabbed after he had handed the cash box to the robbers.

Speaking at a news conference at Dewsbury Police Station, Mrs Davies, who is currently pregnant with the couple's third child, spoke of the effect the attack had had on her and sons, Joshua, five, and two-year-old Luke.

She said: "My five-year-old son is missing him terribly. He wants to know where daddy is, he's missing him so badly."

She added: "I'm frightened of what he's going to be, what this might have done to him, but I'm hoping he's strong enough that I'm going to get the man back that I married."

Mrs Davies, who has been married to David for nearly four years but said they had known each other since childhood, appealed for anyone with any information to contact West Yorkshire Police and condemned her husband's attackers.

"It's just wrong and cruel. I hope they're sleeping well at the moment because I'm not. What they did to my husband was unnecessary," she said.

"It was cowardly. Three on one, how brave. It's not fair, he put up such a fight and they still did that to him."

She added: "He's a great bloke, a hard worker, a loving dad and my best friend. Life just doesn't seem the same at the moment without him."