THE victim of a vicious attack, who was left with horrific facial injuries, has told how he thought he was going to die.

Salim Ahmed Mohamed, aged 32, was dragged from a car and violently beaten with a knuckleduster in Astley Bridge.

His attacker Munaf Seth, aged 35, was jailed for two years and nine months at Pre- ston Crown Court on Tuesday.

Mr Mohamed, who has two young children, said: “I’ve been depressed since the attack and I’m not the same person I was.

“They were stamping on my head with steel toe cap shoes, I thought I was going to die.”

In February last year, Mr Mohamed, from Astley Bridge, was getting a lift home from his job at a family newsagents in Ashton when a Toyota Aven- sis pulled in front of the car, blocking him in.

A gang of men approached the car and dragged Mr Mohamed out before attacking him with metal bars and the knuckleduster.

Seth, of Juniper Close, Bolton, pleaded guilty to griev- ous bodily harm, affray, and having an offensive weapon.

Mr Mohamed said: “They were holding me back by my arms then they starting beat- ing me up. I fell on the ground and they stamped on my head. I thought I was gone.

“I was worrying about my wife and our three-year-old boy and a new born baby at home.”

Later that day, Mr Mohamed’s brother Mohsin was in a car with his wife and two children when he was also approached by Seth, who appeared to be holding a knife and shouted “I’m going to kill you,” in Gujarati.

Mr Mohamed suffered a frac- tured eye socket, broken nose, fractured cheekbone and shat- tered teeth, resulting in sever- al operations on his nose and a metal plate inside his head.

He was off work for six months and still suffers headaches, black-outs and eye- strain, particularly when it is cold.

He said: “My wife was terri- fied all the time, she couldn’t even go out of the house to pick up the kids because she was scared of the attackers striking again.

“I’m not satisfied with the sentence. It’s not enough for what he did to me.”