This is the horrifying moment a thug on a scooter stabbed a dad on his own driveway in front of his terrified wife and young child, Birmingham Mail reports. The attack which was caught on CCTV took place on February 10 in Wheelwright Road in Edrington after the victim and his wife arrived home from collecting their child at nursery.
At around 6pm, the three-year-old child is helped out of the car, before running to their mother as the knifeman goes by on his scooter before dropping it at the fence. The father went to investigate and was met with a hooded figure wearing a face mask and gloves who stabbed him three times in quick succession before running away.
The man said he initially did not realise he had been stabbed but when he noticed, the police and an ambulance were phoned and he was taken to hospital for his 'serious injuries'. The victim's dad and brother, Asad Mahmood were quick to the scene and tried to hunt down the 'coward' who attacked him but could not locate him.
Asad told Birmingham Live: “We don’t know if this was targeted. My brother, who is in his early 30s, doesn’t have any issue with anybody and our family doesn’t, that we know."
Describing how the incident unfolded, Asad explained: "My brother was like ‘what’s that noise’. He walks to the entrance and this guy appears.
“He was fully covered up with gloves. He said ‘yo, what blud what’. As my brother pushed back, he then said ‘what the hell’ as he was stabbed three times. Once by his collar bone, once in his chest near to his heart and another near there.
“And then the attacker ran away. It was then my brother realised he had been stabbed.” Asad said that he and his dad were told his brother wasn't in a 'life threatening' condition and that the wounds had thankfully missed a main artery.
He has shared the CCTV footage of the attack on his brother to warn other people and to also help identify the knifeman or encourage anyone who may know something to come forward. He said: “The way the guy stopped. It almost makes you think he’s picked on my brother.
"Something about it just seemed off. I asked my brother did he ask for money, your phone or car and my brother said ‘perhaps he thought I was staring at him’.
"My sister-in-law had gone to the house and when she saw what was happening she said to my brother ‘get back here, get into the house’. Armed police came and checked the footage, but it is very difficult to see the guy.
"He was wearing dark clothing and distinctive puffer jacket with a zig zag design. My brother said he was slim and around 18. A dark male. We believed he went down Wheelwright Road and on the Erdington Hall Road.”
He continued: “Somebody will know the way he walks or their mannerisms. Police tried to get as much CCTV as they could. They came back on Saturday morning too and asked neighbour about it.
"My brother’s clothes have gone to forensics. We have lived in Erdington for years and never experienced something like this. You never expect this to happen to you.”
The family believe the scooter was one of the council's Voi electric scooters and hope that they can retrieve data on its movements. It comes after two teenagers and a man were stabbed only eight days earlier on the same road on February 2.
That same night there was another violent incident in the area about a mile away which saw police being called out to Erdington's High Street after a man was attacked and left with 'serious head injuries'.
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