A teenage boy, who survived a murderous knife attack in a dark alley, told last night how he is still haunted by the ordeal.

The boy, now 16, whose identity is protected by law, said he suffers sleepless nights and flashbacks about the assault which nearly killed him in March this year.

His attacker, Habib Rahman, was found guilty of attempted murder and possessing an offensive weapon by a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Rahman, 16, of Qureshi View, Manningham, Bradford, was remanded behind bars to await sentence at Leeds Crown Court on October 15.

He was warned by Judge Scott Wolstenholme to expect “a lengthy custodial sentence”.

After the verdicts, the judge lifted the restriction banning the naming of Rahman because of “the gravity of the crime”.

After the verdicts, his victim, who was 15 at the time, told the Telegraph & Argus: “I am over the moon at the outcome and words cannot describe what I am feeling at the moment.

“I have had sleepless nights since the attack and flashbacks.

“It has been so hard to hear him lying in court, knowing he has done it. Justice has been done.”

During the trial, the boy told the jury his then friend “looked crazy” when he repeatedly lunged at him with a kitchen knife. He suffered multiple stab wounds to his face, neck and chest in the attack in an alleyway off Mornington Villas, Manningham, on March 17 this year. One thrust pierced his cheek so hard it struck his teeth.

The court heard the teenagers had met to smoke cannabis.

Rahman, dressed all in black and wearing a zip-up mask, became angry after losing his money in the street.

The victim said he was using his phone light to search for the missing cash when he felt a thump on the back of his head.

He turned to see Rahman holding a kitchen knife. “He seemed very angry and he was looking directly at me,” he told the court.

The boy said Rahman told him: ‘It’s not me. It’s somebody else stabbing you’.

“He looked crazy,” he told the jury.

Jonathan Sharp, for the Crown, said the attack was so vicious Rahman intended to kill. The victim spent a week in hospital with injuries including a fractured skull and cheekbone.

Rahman’s barrister, Tim Stead, asked the judge to adjourn sentence so the probation service could assess how dangerous he is.

Rahman sat in the dock, head bowed, flanked by his uncle and a dock officer.