A JURY watched a video interview today of a nurse who survived being attacked in his home by an alleged knife-wielding intruder.

Chris Bevan was interviewed by police in hospital on May 27 nearly three months after he was stabbed and beaten in his Bickley home.

His partner, Gerry Edwards, 59, died of stab wounds during the incident in Page Heath Villas on March 3.

David Kilcullen, aged 46, of The Avenue, Bickley, is on trial charged with murder and attempted murder. He denies the charges.

The recorded interview was played at the Old Bailey and showed a frail Mr Bevan providing his account of what happened.

The court heard the 57-year-old woke from an evening nap to find a man waving a serrated knife in the two-bedroom flat.

Mr Bevan said: “I was coming down the stairs because I had worked the night before so have a sleep in the afternoon.

“I just stopped in my tracks and I heard a terrible scream coming from the kitchen.”

He said the alleged intruder ordered the couple of 18 years to lie next to each other on the kitchen floor before first stabbing Mr Edwards.

A hoarse Mr Bevan, his face covered in surgical dressing, described what happened to his partner: “He screamed a couple of times because of the pain where he was stabbed.

“That is when I started panicking because I thought he was going to chop us to bits.”

Mr Bevan said it was then that the crouching attacker turned the seven-inch knife on him.

He said: “Mentally I thought my brain was going to explode, physically I thought blood was pumping everywhere.

“I wanted to scream the place down but there was nobody to help us.”

Mr Bevan eventually managed to escape and alerted neighbours.

The NHS nurse, originally from Swansea, spent months in a critical condition in hospital and is still not fully recovered.

Both of Mr Bevan’s lungs were punctured and he has since had his spleen removed.

Mr Bevan is expected to answer questions in the trial via a video link later today or tomorrow.

The trial continues.