Sir Salman Rushdie was 'nearly decapitated' in stabbing frenzy
Sir Salman Rushdie was "nearly decapitated" when he was attacked in a frenzied stabbing. The 76-year-old author was left critically injured after he was knifed repeatedly onstage just moments before he was due to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state in August 2022 - and now his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths, 45, has given her account of his horrific injuries which she saw for the first time after rushing to the hospital to be by his side. In an essay published in the Guardian newspaper, she wrote: "His fingernails are caked with blood. The side of his face that suffe...