20-year-old Daniel Condon ‘stable’ after life-threatening injury in alleged Surfers Paradise stabbing

The latest condition of the victim of a stabbing in the Surfers Paradise party precinct has been revealed amid a pending court appearance for one of the accused. Read the update

People on Orchid Ave around a stabbing in Surfers Paradise on Sunday, 2.30am July 14

A man left fighting for life in a pool of blood from a stabbing attack in the Surfers Paradise party precinct at the weekend has shown signs of improvement as he recovers in hospital.

The 20-year-old victim Daniel Condon’s condition had improved and he was listed as stable, a Gold Coast Health spokeswoman told the Bulletin on Monday.

The Palm Beach man suffered significant blood loss from the incident on Surfers Paradise party strip Orchid Avenue at 2.30am on Sunday, and was rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital.

He was placed in an induced coma and underwent emergency surgery.

20-year-old Daniel Condon was left fighting for life in an alleged stabbing attack at Surfers Paradise on Sunday morning. Picture: Ella Froggatt

A GoFundMe page set up set up by Mr Condon’s friends to help with his recovery has raised more than $2700 in its first hour.

According to witnesses of the alleged Orchid Avenue stabbing, friends of Mr Condon could be heard screaming that he had been “stabbed” as he lay face down on the ground and bleeding heavily.

A Queensland Police Service (QPS) spokesman said in a statement three men took off from the scene in a car before officers arrived.

“At approximately 3.10am, a black Holden Commodore was located abandoned in Molendinar following a single-vehicle traffic crash,” the QPS spokesman said.

“Three men were taken into police custody nearby a short time later”.

Photos from the crash scene show the Commodore appeared to be travelling at speed before it came off the Smith Street Motorway and on to Precision Drive.

The crime scene on Orchid Ave, Surfers Paradise where a 20-year-old man was allegedly stabbed on Sunday morning. Picture: Supplied.

The Commodore ploughed through a garden and hit a Toyota LandCruiser and a Toyota Yarris before pushing the car into a garden bed.

There was 30 metres of debris down the street.

Police will allege that the man was stabbed after getting into an argument with another man and a woman outside a barber shop on Orchid Ave.

Following a manhunt, police charged 21-year-old Victorian man, Manyang Manyang, with acts intended to maim and committing public nuisance.

On Monday morning police arrested a 23-year-old man in the Ipswich suburb of Augustine Heights.

He has been charged with acts intended to maim and unlicensed driving and was due to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Tuesday.

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