A 29-YEAR-OLD - stabbed then left for dead outside his home in Leytonstone - is on his way to a full recovery, says his girlfriend's mother.

Andrew Moskal, who lives with his girlfriend Kate Koniuszuk, 29, in the High Road, was stabbed as he tried to break up a fight over the ownership of a bicycle at about 9pm on Tuesday.

It is understood he was walking home from a martial arts session at Cathall Leisure Centre when he saw a brawl break out just outside his home.

He put his kit bag down in the doorway to the house and went to intervene, but was then stabbed in his stomach.

His girlfriend's mother Bozena Koniuszuk, 55, was sitting inside when she heard screams outside the window.

She rushed outside to see what had happened and found Andrew slumped on a chair on her doorstep, bleeding from a “five centimetre stab wound”.

He received first aid, initially from police on the scene, then by paramedics when an ambulance arrived.

He was taken to the Royal London hospital.

Mrs Koniuszuk, who also lives in the High Road, Leytonstone, said: “He was bleeding a lot.

“I was so scared because he looked so bad. He looked so pale.

“Paramedics were already attending to him. My daughter, she couldn't speak, she couldn't breathe. Then she started crying.

“She went with him in the ambulance, and I got a taxi. I was praying for him all the way to the hospital.”

They were asked to wait at the hospital as surgeons operated on Andrew. He is since close to making a full recovery and could return home by the weekend.

The fight happened after a 42-year-old man, walking along the High Road with two friends, spotted a youngster riding a bike, which he believed was stolen from his house on Monday.

After continued arguments, the youngster made a phone call and a gang of six youths, thought to be in their late teens, arrived.

A mass brawl then led to Andrew's stabbing.

Mrs Koniuszuk added: “Andrew is such a helpful person and always tries to help those in need. That may have been his downfall.

“He is such a strong man. He even started making jokes when we saw him in hospital.

“He said he never thought they would make that big a fuss and close the street just for him.

“I want to understand why there is so much violence (in Leytonstone).

“I am afraid to go out. My daughter is afraid to go out. We would all like to move as far away from here as possible.”

Police arrested a 21-year-old man and were questioning him on Wednesday.