The first victim of a blood-lusting paranoid schizophrenic who went on a stabbing rampage attempting to murder seven people in Keighley has spoken out for the first time.

Muhammed Nazam, 25, had been living in Keighley for just two weeks when Raheem Nawaz, 20, drove a six-inch blade through his chest as he made his way to pray at a local mosque last summer.

Speaking exclusively to the Keighley News this week, Mr Nazam said he was 10 minutes early for prayer on the fateful Thursday evening and was waiting outside Holycroft Primary School on Victoria Road, Keighley, with his uncle when Nawaz approached, hurling abuse at them.

He said: “He just started swearing at us and then grabbed a knife and stabbed me in my chest.

“I had never seen him before, it all happened so quickly. My uncle told him not to do anything and then I just started running.

“I didn’t want to be hurt again.I remember my chest hurt all over. I got to the car and just fainted,” Mr Nazam said.

Hours later, tanked up on vodka, amphetamines, whisky and cannabis, Nawaz set upon six more innocent strangers outside The Livery Rooms pub in North Street, Keighley.

Among them was mother Sarah Wade, 44, who was stabbed four times in the stomach and nearly died, Fiona Haughey who was slit in the abdomen and chest, Fiona Moorhouse who was cut in the neck and James French, who was also attacked in the abdomen.

Nawaz was apprehended in a ‘bizarre twist of events’ by the seventh victim, Majid Hussain, who happened to be Muhammed’s brother-in-law. Nawaz later admitted to police ‘I hope they are dead. I love blood. I drink blood.’

Last week, Nawaz pleaded guilty to seven counts of attempted murder and the Recorder of Bradford, Judge James Stewart QC, sent him to Rampton high security hospital without time limit last Friday.

But Mr Nazam, who is originally from Mirbur in Pakistan, said he is still too scared to go out at night.

His wife Nazia Akram, a carer from Nottingham, said: “He spent eight days in ICU at Airedale and St James’s hospitals. They said his lungs were filled with blood so they had to operate to get it out.

“He was released but then started getting pains and the doctors said blood was now all around his heart. He spent five more days in St James’s Hospital to get it out.

“He still gets chest pains and has to walk slower than normal. He doesn’t go out without me or his uncle, because he gets scared.”

Meanwhile victim Sarah Wade has spoken of her ‘absolute relief’ that the paranoid schizophrenic might never be free again.

Mrs Wade came face to face with Raheem Nawaz in court last Friday for the first time since he repeatedly plunged a blade into her stomach outside the pub.

The innocent community home carer, who was stabbed four times, said it was ‘hard’ to hear in court that she probably would have died in the attack if it wasn’t for the emergency first aid given to her by two quick-acting men in The Livery Rooms Wetherspoon pub.

Ms Wade said: “I will never forget what they did, I will always be very grateful, they saved my life.

“For everyone who was there and who witnessed the horror unfolding that night – it must be awful. For me, I was drifting in and out of consciousness so I remember less clearly.”

The mother-of-one had been socialising with her mother and friends Fiona Haughey and Carol Owlett, also stab victims, when Nawaz struck.

Ms Wade said: “I was in the doorway and I thought I was being punched in the stomach. I had no idea he had a knife.

“We came back inside the pub and Fiona said ‘look down’ and my jeans were soaked in blood. I think adrenaline must have kicked in because I just said, ‘I’m fine’, but the next thing I slid down a pillar unconscious.

“A woman who works behind the bar also works in hospital theatre and she told the two men (William Smith and Matthew Dykes) to stem the blood flow from my stomach, which they did with the shirts from their backs.”

Fiona was also stabbed in her chest and abdomen and the friends went to court last Friday to hear the Recorder of Bradford, Judge James Stewart QC, send Nawaz, just 19 at the time of the attempted murders, to Rampton high security hospital without a time limit.

Ms Wade, who now finds it hard to do physical activity and can still not drive her own car or go back to work, said: “Going to court was hard, but it was the closure we needed so we can finally try and move on.

“Seeing him standing there and hearing what he had said, I was really shocked. It brought all the events of the night back. But I am very, very pleased with the result - it is what we hoped for.

“The police told me afterwards that he will probably never be released That is a relief.”