By Brendan Mcfadden and Tim Stickings For Mailonline
Published: 12:44 GMT, 20 January 2019 | Updated: 19:51 GMT, 20 January 2019
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A shocked cafe worker has told how he helped save the life of a customer after he was stabbed 'inches from his heart' in West London this morning.
The man collapsed on the pavement outside the cafe after being stabbed in upmarket suburb Kew Gardens around 8am and screamed "help - call an ambulance", witnesses said.
The victim, in his 50s, man was stabbed with an 'enormous knife' near Kew Gardens underground station in what locals described as an attempted car theft.
A police officer in forensic gear inspects the site where man was stabbed near the entrance to Kew Gardens in west London on Sunday morning
The man was taken to hospital where he remains in a stable condition after the stabbing, police said.
Gino Gashi who works at Cafe Torelli, said the man, who is a regular at the cafe called Eric, staggered to the cafe after being stabbed and collapsed on the pavement outside it.
Mr Torrelli said: 'I was shocked to be honest – I haven't seen anything like this before. Seeing someone who has been stabbed is shocking.
'He was stabbed inches from his heart. It was a deep wound. He was screaming help - call an ambulance.'
Mr Torrelli explained he and other café workers
