Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing A reformed Moss Side drug dealer-turned-anti-knife-campaigner, partially blinded when he was stabbed in the face, has told how he regrets not walking away from the fight which cost him an eye.
Mark Bracewell was knifed through the eye and almost died in the horrific attack five years ago. Before that he had also survived being kidnapped and shot and watched his friend die in front of him having been stabbed through the heart.
Mark, who now lives in Stoke-on-Trent has joined Staffordshire Police's Ditch the Blade campaign - saying knives had cost him his eye.
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