Police said Reardon stabbed his partner, a man in his 20s who police are not naming, in the back and throat as they walked through the woodland, near Slough, on Friday, 23 May.<\/p>\n
Detectives said he had asked to use his partner’s mobile phone which he then used in an attempt to send a message to the victim’s mother “suggesting the victim had suicidal thoughts”.<\/p>\n
However, the message failed to send, and the victim saw it just moments before Reardon launched his attack with a steak knife.<\/p>\n
He continued to stab him, despite pleas for him to stop.<\/p>\n
The victim was stabbed, struck with a candle and strangled, but managed to disarm Reardon twice and escape, police said.<\/p>\n
The attack ended when the victim ran to a road and found a dog walker, who called emergency services.<\/p>\n
At this point Reardon fled.<\/p>\n
The victim had multiple and extensive serious injuries in the attack, but survived thanks to the expertise of medical professionals, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said Reardon stabbed his partner, a man in his 20s who police are not naming, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-324623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}