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Embedded in this young man's eye socket is the metal leg of a chair.
Just hours after these images were taken, a team of five surgeons successfully removed the chair leg, leaving 19-year-old Shafique el-Fahkri of Melbourne to lead an almost normal life.
The teenager miraculously survived a random attack outside a city nightclub earlier this year, when 20-year-old Liam Peart picked up a metal framed chair and threw it at el-Fahkri. A three-hour operation at the Royal Melbourne Hospital saved his life and his eye.
El-Fahkri spent a month in hospital and today has 95 per cent of his sight back. He told the Sydney Morning Herald that his eye was blurry, his body weak and his neck stiff after the incident.
"I feel all right at the moment, actually, but I am too weak for work," he said. On Friday, Peart pleaded guilty to a charge of negligently causing serious injury in the January 21 brawl. "I forgive him, totally," el-Fahkri said.
