“I could have been killed,” former minister of national security K D Knight told his colleagues in Parliament yesterday as he related Sunday’s attack on him by a man said to be of unsound mind at a political rally in Bog Walk, St Catherine.

Knight made the comment after Opposition MPs heckled him for ignoring the report in yesterday’s Observer about the attack on him at a political meeting, while referring to a story in the same newspaper about the Electoral Commission’s objections to the Senate’s handling of its open voting proposals.

“What took place at Bog Walk could have taken place anywhere and, whilst you are grinning with delight, what you should be actually doing is saying to yourselves, how can we prevent something like this from happening,” said Knight. “I could have been killed. If he had a knife or an ice pick I would have been dead.”

He chided the Opposition, saying that “two minutes after it happened, there were persons on their political platforms talking about it in a manner which amazed me”.

Knight said that instead of gloating, he had expected sympathy from the Opposition.

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