A knifeman who stabbed a Government worker outside the Home Office before walking away with his pet ferret has been locked up in a secure hospital. Dominic Hornberger, 31, knifed Paul Reeves, a contractor working for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, as he talked to his wife on the phone in Westminster on August 15, 2019. Southwark Crown Court heard the victim, who was in his 60s, was left with a 25cm wound to his back and a 10cm superficial wound to the forehead, along with other facial injuries. Hornberger then approached a woman sat on a nearby bench, but was fended off by civil servant Stephen Nelson, who shouted at him to leave her alone.