British professor and wife stabbed in Caribbean knife attack I tried to pull him off, but he just started stabbing me. It was awful, just terrifying. After he stabbed me he just went back to stabbing my wife who was lying on the floor. Prof Bridges said as he and his wife lay wounded the masked intruder demanded to know where their money was. After searching their bedroom for cash he returned and continued to stab them. It was just sheer terror. I still have a picture in my mind of him standing over here and repeatedly stabbing her," he added. Prof Bridges, who is Chairman of the European Commission's Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks, said that the couple, from Guildford in Surrey, had only been in the villa for 40 minutes when the attack took place last Friday evening. A hospital spokesman said Dr Olga Bridges is in a stable condition. A spokesman for Barbados police said a local man was being questioned over the attack but declined to give any further details. A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed a British couple were attacked in Barbados and consular assistance had been offered.