Suspect Service denies stabbed care worker tried to drive herself to hospital because of a long ambulance wait
Eleanor Barnfield, the carer killed at the Ger-y-Nant retirement complex in Bridgend on Monday, whose family described her as "the kindest, most loving bravest person in the world.
The service says medics were called to the Coity Road crash at about 12:44 and a response unit arrived seven minutes later, branding online rumours 'factually untrue'. Eyewitnesses had reportedly claimed Eleanor Barnfield, 47, was told to expect a long wait. The mother-of-two crashed into a wall in Bridgend on Monday. A 61-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of murder.
Barnfield managed just 300 yards of the mile-and-a-half drive to Princess of Wales Hospital.
Armed police found the suspect barricaded in a room at Ger-y-Nant retirement complex.
