A man has shared the lifechanging moment he was stabbed in the neck after another man tried to steal his car keys. Akai Douglas pulled up at The Meadows shopping precinct when he was confronted by a man who took his car keys.
Despite the shock at the incident, he heard a voice in his head that gave him strength and the determination to drive himself to Nottingham’s Queen’s Medical Centre despite bleeding heavily from the wound.
Upon his arrival astonished A&E staff rushed him to the operating theatre and the father of two spent the next five hours receiving life-saving surgery. Speaking about the incident, Akai said: "I was in shock. "It was in my neck. I couldn’t talk and it was confusion. Your life definitely does flash before your eyes. I had an out-of-body experience.
