Gatecrasher stabs 'nice boy' at Bay party

A young man stabbed 2cm from his heart at a Papamoa house on Saturday night was attacked by a stranger who burst into the house shouting and screaming.
Steve Allan, speaking to the Bay of Plenty Times this morning at the house where the stabbing happened, said his sons Stephen and Ryan were having a quiet gathering with friends that night.
Stephen Allan remains in hospital in intensive care in a serious but stable condition.
Power to the Palm Springs Boulevard house was cut about an hour before the incident, leaving it in near darkness with candles for light.
"It was a small gathering and they were just having a few quiet drinks and strumming the guitar with friends," Mr Allan said.
He was unsure if the man was let in the door or broke in.
"He was ranting and raving, screaming about something," he said.
Mr Allan said the man was difficult to understand and was not known to his sons. He might have been an ex-boyfriend of one of the girls at the house.
"They tried to get him out of the house and told him he had to leave," he said. They got the man to the front porch, where the stabbing happened in virtual darkness.
"It sounds like Stephen fell at some point and broke his upper arm. It was a nasty compound fracture," he said.
"He didn't realise he'd been stabbed till the guy had left."
The man got in his car, reversed down the street and hit a tree in on a neighbouring property before driving away. One of the three stab wounds missed Stephen's heart by just 2cm, Mr Allan said.
Mr Allan and his wife rushed back from a South Island holiday early when they heard the news of the stabbing.
"By the sound of it he was out of it or on something, sounds like a real mongrel whoever this guy was," Mr Allan said.
"Stephen's a nice boy. He didn't deserve that."
Mr Allan said doctors could not operate on his son's arm because there was too much fluid around his heart.
"He's not out of the woods yet. The only thing I'm thankful for is that he's alive."
Police are still searching for the man who stabbed Mr Allan. Tauranga CIB Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier said police were following strong leads in locating the injured man's attacker.
"We've been given a name and expect to make an arrest very soon but suggest it would be wise for him to come forward to police as soon as possible."
The weapon was not found.