Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing: Survivor Liya Barko reveals the chilling ... trends now
A brave survivor of the Bondi Junction Westfield stabbing rampage has recalled the two chilling words the knifeman uttered after he plunged his blade into her ribs and narrowly missed her heart.
Liya Barko, 35, was shopping for a volleyball on April 13 when Joel Cauchi stabbed her with a 30cm hunting knife during a rampage that claimed the lives of five women and a security guard at the busy shopping centre in Sydney's east.
Ms Barko, who was born in Ukraine, spent the next 10 days fighting for life in intensive care and was discharged from hospital a week ago.
She recalled how the harrowing ordeal happened so quickly that she didn't even see Cauchi's knife.
'I think he just looked at me and he decided in that moment and then I looked at my hands and I was bleeding,' she told Nine News.
After the horrifying attack, Cauchi looked at Mr Barko and said: 'Catch you', before continued his killing spree.
Liya Barko (pictured), 35, was shopping for a volleyball on Saturday 13 April when Joel Cauchi stabbed her with a 30cm hunting knife in a rampage that claimed the lives of six people.
A quick-thinking hero in a green T-shirt then pulled Ms Barko into a shop where he closed the security screen and applied pressure to her wound - which almost certainly saved her life.
'When you are on the floor, you're bleeding, you can see everyone's expression and some of them were crying, they were scared ... for their lives also,' she said while
