A strip club patron who was left "bleeding everywhere" after being stabbed in the chest during a brawl said he was defending himself, but the lawyer for the man with the knife argued his client was the one "outnumbered, outmuscled, and out of options".
An ACT Supreme Court trial beginning on Tuesday heard that in the early hours of July 17 in 2021, two men were left with knife-inflicted wounds during a brawl between two groups of people at the front of the Wanderlust Gentleman's Club in Mitchell.
