Terrifying moment father is stabbed on his driveway as horrified wife and child look on

This is the terrifying moment a thug on a scooter stabbed a father on his driveway as his wife and young child watched in horror. 

The brutal attack happened in Erdington, Birmingham, last Friday and was caught on CCTV. 

The footage shows the father, who had just returned with his wife from collecting his child from nursery, get out of his car at about 6pm. 

At this moment the thug in a thick hooded jacket and face mask goes by on a scooter, only to return and stab the father three times in quick succession before running off. 

The brutal attack happened in Erdington, Birmingham, last Friday and was caught on CCTV

The father didn’t realise he had been stabbed but was quickly rushed to hospital by his brother with ‘serious injuries’ when it became clear he had been stabbed.

The victim’s brother Asad Mahmood, 39, described the thug as a ‘coward’ and told BirminghamLive he wasn’t aware of any motive for the attack. 

He said: ‘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.

‘On Friday my brother, who is a legal clerk, went to work and came back at half five. He went out to get his child from nursery and was with his wife when the stabbing happened.’

‘He arrived back around six o’clock. He’s in the car around a minute or so and comes out of the car. His wife gets out of the passenger side and he gets his child from the vehicle. Somebody on a scooter goes across the property.

‘It looks like he tried to stand the scooter up but it fell against the fence. 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.’

The attack happened on Wheelwright Road at the corner of Kingsbury Road in Erdington

The victim’s family members quickly applied pressure on the wounds to ‘stop the bleeding’ while an ambulance and police were called. 

Mr Mahmood added: ‘My dad came out and then got me. We went to look for the attacker. We were gone around five minutes and by then armed police came. Soon afterwards the ambulance came.

‘They told us what we needed to hear. We were told it wasn’t life-threatening and the wounds had missed a main artery. He went to hospital and they stitched him up. He had more stitches in his fingers too.

‘Any other time, any other day, it could have been much, much worse.’

Mr Mahmood shared the footage of his brother’s stabbing to warn other people but also to encourage people with any information 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.’

The thug was described as a ‘slim, dark male’ around the age of 18 by the victim.  

Mr Mahmood added: ‘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.

‘When it happened I was very upset. All the horrible thoughts run through your mind. 

‘My father was hysterical. We were worried if an ambulance would turn up. We have lived in Erdington for years and never experienced something like this. You never expect this to happen to you.’