Uni student scarred in party slash attack

Elle FarcicThe West Australian A Perth university student says he is lucky he is not blind in one eye after he was slashed in the face by a stranger outside a 21st birthday party in Attadale

on Sunday. Jordan, who did not want his surname published, was attacked with what is believed to have been a broken candelabrum in the early hours of the morning. A man accused the

20-year-old of stealing his cigarettes before charging at him in the dark as he left the Great Gatsby-themed party about 2am. A second stranger then attacked Jordan from the side, cutting

his face with a sharp object as he tried to fight off the other man. "He came in from the side, when he wasn't even in danger at all, with a weapon," he said. "It was

just completely unprovoked. I wasn't looking for a fight in any context whatsoever." Fearing things would escalate if he waited around for an ambulance, Jordan got into his car and

drove himself to Royal Perth Hospital. He needed more than 30 stitches to his left cheek for a cut that started less than a centimetre from his eye and ended near his chin. Doctors told him

he could easily have been blinded if the man had slashed him across his eye. Jordan's stitches will be taken out on Thursday but he has been warned he will be left with a scar that may

not fade for more than a year. He has also been told he may have to look into options such as plastic surgery if the scar does not heal well. Jordan said the vicious attack and the long

line of stitches down the side of his face had left him feeling self-conscious. "I won't be comfortable doing a lot of things any more, like going out and talking to girls,"

he said. "I just hope our legal system handles these cases well enough because whether the person was drunk or not, I don't think it's ever acceptable." A police

spokesman said a man had yesterday been questioned over the attack. No charges had been laid. Jordan was asked to leave the house minutes before the incident after he was repeatedly harassed

over the cigarettes. He said the man who cut his face had mistakenly accused him of trying to chat up his girlfriend earlier in the night. "I wasn't drunk but the fight is blurry

because it was a bit traumatic," he said. "I'm not a fighter. I have never been in a fight in my life." GET THE LATEST NEWS FROM THEWEST.COM.AU IN YOUR INBOX. Sign up for

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