Migrant knifed student, 18, because he wanted to be deported from UK [Video]

This is the moment an Iraqi immigrant stabbed a university student so he could be deported back home.

Ellis Wheeler, 18, was left fighting for his life after Rebaz Mohammed, 28, knifed him while he walked through Hoglands Park in Southampton last December.

Terrifying footage shows Mohammed pull a kitchen knife from his coat before plunging it into the teenager’s back, puncturing his lung, in front of horrified onlookers.

Mr Wheeler managed to evade any further blows and run away but ended up passing out before he could get any medical help.

Luckily, a ‘heroic’ friend was there to call 999 and put pressure on his wound until the police arrived.

Mohammed was arrested at the scene and told officers he had launched the attack because he wanted to be deported from the UK.

His defence lawyer, Richard Tutt, told Southampton Crown Court: ‘Mohammed believed, from what he had been …