A WOMAN parking attendant has been stabbed with a hypodermic syringe in an unprovoked attack.

The 24-year-old woman was stabbed in Thompson Road, Sunderland in the early hours of yesterday morning by a scruffy-looking man, who stood laughing at his distraught victim before running from the scene.

The woman is now awaiting the results of blood tests after being treated in hospital for her injuries.