Abigail is 'making good progress'

Abigail Witchalls is able to sit up in a chair beside her hospital bed, family friends revealed today.

The 26-year-old has been transferred to a specialist spinal injuries unit in Stanmore, where she will continue her rehabilitation two weeks after being paralysed in a knife attack in the Surrey village of Little Bookham.

One source said: " She's making good progress - little by little she's improving." Nurses

lifted her into a chair. Mrs Witchalls was attacked as she took her 21-month-old son Joseph home along a country lane.

Detectives are to interview her again this weekend. They need further details to produce a computer image of the suspect and to narrow down what kind of vehicle he may have been driving.