Man survives after being stabbed in head with butter knife

Blade attack victim Michal Cielsa reeled in shock when doctors showed him an X-ray of a butter knife embedded inside his head. Michal, 28, relived his ordeal after the thug who stabbed him in the face was jailed for life. And he admitted he was incredibly lucky to live through the horrific assault.

Michal said: "I couldn't believe it when I saw the X-ray. I was shaking. I asked, 'Is that my head?' "I'd like to ask the guy how he did that. It's a knife to spread butter. It's not easy to stab someone with it. It's not sharp. It's amazing that I survived."

Michal, who went to Scotland from his native Poland, was stabbed in Aberdeen last August by a serial thug with a record of 140 previous offences.



Mark Mearns, 34, picked up the blunt blade in a pub before driving it into his victim's head with horrific force.

The knife came within an inch of piercing Michal's brain. He remembers nothing of the attack and only found out what had happened to him after surgeons saved his life.

Sentencing Mearns yesterday, judge Lord Uist told him: "I find it difficult to understand how anyone can be so wicked as to stick a knife through the side of a person's nose into his head. I have seen a copy of the X-ray. It can only be described as sickening to look at."

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