[Julian Knight continues…]
As the other senior cadets looked down at him in shock, I turned and dashed towards the exit. I crouched over and ran through the crowd. I brushed past the bouncers on the door and jumped down the short flight of stairs leading to the entrance door, which I flung open and burst out onto the sidewalk. Without stopping, I turned left and ran down the sidewalk.
I had got about 50 metres down Northbourne Avenue when I heard someone behind me yell:
“Come back here, you cunt!”
I turned around and saw one of the 1st Class cadets who had been talking to REED, standing outside the entrance to the Private Bin, with his fists clenched. I kept running down the sidewalk. As I kept running, I noticed blood on my hands and a dull pain in my right hand. I looked down and saw that I was bleeding from a narrow, but deep, cut to the base of my right little finger. When I had stabbed REED, I had unknowingly held the knife with the fully sharpened edge uppermost. As a result, when the knife hit bone and stopped, my hand had slide down onto the blade. While still running and while still holding the knife in my right hand, I pulled out my handkerchief with my left hand and held it over the wound.
As I was running along Northbourne Avenue I decided to look for a police car to hail down so I could hand myself in. I turned left into London Court and then into Petrie Place where I spotted two uniformed AFP officers (Senior Constable John WELDON and Constable TURK) in a marked police sedan driving slowly along the City Walk. I managed to flag them down in the laneway (see image below) behind the Ainslie Avenue ANZ Canberra City branch bank.

Soon afterwards, a senior AFP detective from the (Canberra) City Police Station, Inspector Brian HEPWORTH, arrived at the scene in an unmarked AFP sedan, and at 0315hrs, another unmarked AFP sedan arrived in the laneway containing two detectives, First Constable Shane AUSTIN and Senior Constable Christopher NOVAK from the Belconnen Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB).
AUSTIN later stated that:
“I saw that the defendant had a handkerchief wrapped around his little finger of his right hand and that there was a large amount of dried blood on both his hands. I also saw that his nose was swollen and that he had a laceration approximately one centimetre long across the bridge of his nose. I then gave the defendant a seat in the rear of Inspector HEPWORTH’s unmarked vehicle”.
At 0340hrs, I was transported under police escort in an ambulance to the Accident and Emergency Department of the Royal Canberra Hospital in Acton.
