Haunting moment dad stabbed in driveway

A Queensland dad of three has told of the horrifying moment he was stabbed by a teen home intruder on Christmas Day, sharing CCTV of the alleged attack.

A Queensland father of three has told of the terrifying moment he was left bleeding out on his driveway after allegedly being stabbed by a teen home intruder on Christmas Day.

Ben Clarke, of Emu Plains on the state’s Capricornia Coast, broke his silence on Tuesday over the serious injuries he suffered when a typical Australian Christmas was violently interrupted.

In distressing footage of the alleged attack, caught on CCTV, Mr Clarke can be seen attempting to restrain the young intruder before a fight breaks out.

Mr Clarke attempts to restrain the intruder, who was carrying a knife. Picture: Channel 9

“Did you just stab me?” he asks, visibly shocked as he falls to his knees and family members swarm the scene.

“Did you just stab my dad?” one of Mr Clarke’s sons yells, before his wife Cresta jumps to action and calls an ambulance.

“It was a fairly normal Christmas … More quiet than usual. Less family being overseas,” the dad described to Channel 9’s Today Show on Tuesday.

“Early in the evening, we had a teen come into our house uninvited. He’d obviously had a large day and, long story short, he was removed from the premises and put in a car. I calmed him down, got him in a car and sent him home.”

“Did you just stab me?” he asked, before falling to his knees. Picture: Channel 9

Within half an hour, though, Mr Clarke said the boy had returned — this time accompanied by a family member, and wielding a knife.

“I was putting out the seafood out in the driveway, out to the bin. Cars pulled up, and this young fella concealed a knife in the family member’s car. We didn’t know,” he said.

Still, Mr Clarke said he was most concerned for the teenage intruder’s welfare.

“He was extremely heightened and out-of-control,” he said.

“I just tried to settle him down. He was screaming and yelling what he was going to do. I didn’t see a knife in his hand or anything.”

Despite his good intentions, Mr Clark was stabbed multiple times in the stomach, chest and arm — injuries that landed him in hospital.

He shared shocking images of the injuries, which resulted in a brutal scar running from his stomach to his lower chest.

He shared shocking images of his injuries, including a brutal scar. Picture: Channel 9

He landed in hospital after the attack. Picture: Channel 9

Wife Cresta said the incident was “horrendous”. She described shielding her youngest son from witnessing the attack, believing that her husband was going to die.

“It all unfolded very quickly in front our eyes. I will never forget my husband dropping to his knees and clutching his chest and my other two sons running in to help him,” Cresta told the program.

“I thought he was going to die on the grass that day.”

Mr Clarke continues to suffer from the pain of his injuries, but said the alleged attack wasn’t really “about him”.

He warned of a “knife crime crisis” that meant “a lot of Queenslanders don’t feel safe in their own homes.”

“It’s a bigger issue for my family, and it’s a bigger issue for our state and our country and our children,” he said.

“I don’t understand how this has been normalised, and how it’s been okayed.

“It doesn’t really matter which way you spin it, it all comes back to the leadership. Our magistrates are appointed by who in law? And who pays them? … Any other corporate industry, you would be asked what your numbers are and what you are doing, is it working? If it is not, what are you doing about it?

“It is clear that it is not, and they are not making inroads.”