PR executive Nick Rappolt, 31, was stabbed in the back and arm with a combat knife as he told his wife on the phone that he was almost home. He nearly bled to death after the attack near his £1million house off Clapham Common, London. Mr Rappolt needed ten hours of emergency surgery and has lost most of the use in his left hand since the attack last September, the Evening Standard reported. 
Details of the attack were revealed at Inner London crown court which heard that Mr Rappolt was the third victim that night of the gang - Craig Ainslie, 22, Asha Grey, 21, and Carl Dinnage, 17. The trio drank champagne and took cocaine as they celebrated Grey's birthday before driving around Wandsworth and Clapham in a stolen Ford Fiesta to pick out a victim at random. They first attacked pizza delivery driver Mohammed Dost, who was battered with his helmet and robbed. Then they pulled Neil Dyer into the back of the car and kicked his head 'like a football' after they tried to get money from his bank account. Then they targeted Mr Rappolt who was on his way home from a charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He said in an impact statement: 'I could feel my jeans becoming drenched in my own blood and began to realise I might die. 'Two days after the attack my wife found out she was pregnant. Regrettably she lost our baby six weeks later. I have no doubt the stress of this incident was a contributing factor in this.' The trio were sentenced on Friday after admitting several offences including kidnap, grievous bodily harm and robbery.
Grey of Balham, was told he would have to serve a minimum term of five years, Ainslie of Tooting Bec, was given four years. Dinnage was handed a two-year detention and training order.
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