Lucky to be alive

Read the whole thing. There are a lot of things he could've done better.

"'When I opened the door there were two men there who started shouting at me. I grappled with them and the next thing I knew more men had come running round from the back of my flatand I was being attacked.'

He was attacked with at least two different knives, and suffered five major stab wounds and several lacerations.

The gang slashed his throat, stabbed him in the back, stabbed him in the back of the head, almost severed his left forearm, and slashed his right arm. As he was slumped on his doorstep, neighbours came to his aid, used towels to stem the bleeding and called an ambulance."