'I genuinely believed I was going to die': Innocent bystander's terror after stranger randomly stabs him in street

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Sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here to keep abreast of what's happening in your neighbourhood A drug addict who stabbed and brutally attacked a stranger in the street - believing he was someone else - has been locked up.

A judge described a 'vicious and prolonged attack with a highly dangerous weapon' as he jailed Tony Combs for nine years. Combs, 39, stabbed the man once in the back with a kitchen knife, then kicked and punched him in the head. READ MORE: Six people arrested, machete, axes, and dogs seized in police raids aimed at smashing east Manchester cocaine gangs A court in Salford was told the puncture wound was only millimetres away from causing him a permanent spinal cord injury.