The 16-year-old victim of a brutal stab attack in a city park had been waiting to meet his girlfriend when he was set-upon, a neighbour has said.
The lad is recovering at home after being treated in in hospital for what police have described as "potentially life changing" wounds in the incident on Friday.
Officers say he was sitting on a bench in Elswick Park, in Newcastle's West End, when he was approached by two males who attacked him then left the scene.
