Knifeman ‘confessed to attack’

A suspected knifeman confessed to a friend he had repeatedly stabbed a City business analyst as she lay in a coma after a vicious attack, a court heard. Barry Peacham, 26, allegedly knifed Qingqing Rao, 29, in the head and vagina before leaving her for dead in Castle Green Park, Dagenham, east London, on 13 February. Peacham ran off with her handbag containing her laptop, bank cards and iPhone but later dumped them down drains on surrounding streets, it is…