A WOMAN in her 40s has been taken to hospital after receiving a severe injury following a serious assault.
Police and ambulance crews were called to Barnstaple Road in the Harold Hill estate at around 4pm today. The London Air Ambulance was called and landed in a nearby field but was stood down, taking off shortly after 5pm.
Witness Bill Swain, who lives close by to where the incident happened, said: "It looked like a very severe head injury. She was a black woman in her 40s. Her head was well wrapped up in padding.
The police had done a very efficient job to clear the street and had erected sheets so onlookers couldn't see what was going on.
"She was obviously in a very bad way. She was unconscious when she was brought out of ther house."
