Stephen Crean at his home in southwest London, where he is recovering from stab wounds sustained in an attack on a train last Saturday night. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Stephen Crean is at home at his flat in Wimbledon, southwest London, on a drizzly Monday evening. On the wall behind him hang a red Nottingham Forest football scarf, his wedding photo and more family photographs. The past few days of his life could not have been more different than the joyful moments depicted.

On Saturday night, the 61-year-old fended off a man wielding a large kitchen knife on a

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