"He counted 3, 2, 1 – then stabbed me in the heart"
Kieran Quinlan was 17 years old when a man confronted him with a knife: "I'm going to count down from three, then I'm going to stab you."
Kieran Quinlan was an aspiring boxer living in his hometown of Birmingham in the UK. When he was 17 he was on the bus heading to a party when a man confronted him. The man counted down: 3, 2, 1 – before stabbing Kieran through his lung and into his heart. Kieran should have died that night. But instead he survived, spending the next decade rebuilding his life, transforming his body and his mind in the process.
Presenter: Asya Fouks
Producer: May Cameron
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(Photo: Kieran Quinlan. Credit: Kieran Quinlan)
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