Cabbie stabbed in knife frenzy
A TAXI driver has been stabbed by a man who absconded from a mental health unit.
Father of four Mahmood Anwar, 40, was knifed in the face and suffered horrific injuries to his hands, which required surgery.
A 29-year-old man arrested after the attack was found to have walked out of the Edale mental health unit on the site of Manchester Royal Infirmary only hours earlier. Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has launched an investigation into the incident.
The arrested man has not been fit enough to be formally interviewed by police.
He has now returned to the Edale Unit.
Mr Anwar was attacked by a man he had collected from outside a takeaway on Stockport Road, Longsight.
His wife, Zohra, said: "As my husband was pulling up to drop the fare off the man asked how much it was. At that moment my husband decide to turn round and as he did the man was about to plunge a knife into his neck.
"I believe the only reason he was not killed was because he turned round. He was stabbed in the face and the man started kicking too. My husband shouted for help and the man eventually ran off.
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