A drug crazed thug stabbed his half-brother to the face with a pair of scissors in a horrendous attack which just missed his eye.
Damian Dawson landed the blow 'very close' to his sibling's left eye, after he'd been accused of stealing drugs.
The attacker wielded the scissors again and stabbed him to the hand.
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"I'm just going to do him, I'm not ar***," he said before leaving the flat where they'd been taking heroin, cocaine and diazepam.
Dawson, 35, has now been jailed for 28 months.
"He should have been looking after me, not attacking me in the way he did," the 30-year-old said of Dawson.
"I do believe if I hadn't managed to kick him off me, then he would have stabbed me even more and probably killed me."
Manchester Crown Court heard that Dawson went to his half brother's house and the pair took 'large quantities' of drugs, along with the victim's half brother.
They fell asleep, and at one point the victim woke up and went to get some diazepam.
He couldn't find it and believed either of the men had stole it from him, prosecutor Juliet Berry said.
Dawson responded and said: "So you are calling me a thief?"
"Look, there they are, they've fallen out of your pocket," he was told by other half brother.
After the victim repeated the accusation, Dawson said: "Call me a thief once more and I'll stab you."
Dawson grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed him 'very close' to his left eye, then again to his hand.
"Look what you've done, you need to call an ambulance," the other half brother said.
"I'm just going to do him, I'm not ar***," Dawson said.
The victim was rushed to hospital. He has permanent scarring on his hand and near his eye after undergoing treatment.
He said he was 'shocked' and 'disappointed' at being attacked by his relative.
Judge Elizabeth Nicholls said the attack could have had 'fatal consequences' he'd been stabbed in the eye.
The judge accepted that Dawson has mental health issues, but said he was in a 'drug induced rage' at the time of the attack, on November 24, 2020.
Defending, Daniel Calder said Dawson had suffered from trauma in childhood which he has carried into his adult life, and had battled drug addiction.
Dawson, of Marlbrook Walk, Bolton, pleaded guilty to unlawful wounding.
