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A young woman who was almost stabbed to death by her violent older boyfriend after breaking up with him has revealed terrifying details about their relationship.
Keana Ball, now 20, was attacked by 32-year-old Mark McLean in the driveway of her home in Balcatta, northern Perth, on March 24.
The couple had been dating for four months when a drug-addled McLean stabbed the then-19-year-old after she told him ‘I can’t do this anymore, you are too full on’.
He was sentenced to nine years behind bars on Tuesday for the cowardly attack caught on CCTV, but will be eligible for parole in seven.
Ms Ball has bravely spoken out about her toxic relationship with the tattooed FIFO worker 13 years her senior, saying she often felt ‘trapped and stuck’.
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Keana Ball, now 20, was attacked by 32-year-old Mark McLean in the driveway of her home in Balcatta, northern Perth, on March 24 (pictured after the attack with emergency services)
CCTV vision showed the 19-year-old walk her former boyfriend down her driveway (left) before the violent attack (right) that led to him being jailed for nine years
Ms Ball is pictured on the day of the attack after having surgery for the stab wound in her chest
‘It’s all been hard, having that in the back of my mind … because I just don’t know why someone would want to kill me,’ she told Nine News.
‘Especially because I never did anything to him, anything at all. I was nothing but kind but it backfired.’
Just hours after she underwent life-saving surgery on the day of the attack, Ms Ball took to Facebook from her hospital bed to share a powerful message to her friends.
She described the attack as the ‘most stressful and scary thing in her life’.
‘Out of nowhere he screams at me rips a knife from his pants and stabs me in the chest, barely missing my heart and puncturing my lung,’ Ms Ball wrote.
‘He then put me in a choke hold till I was unconscious, I am so thankful for my neighbours and the friends I have in my life if they didn’t call Police and Ambulance, I would be dead.’
‘Domestic violence is a real thing, it doesn’t matter if it is a push or a stab, I almost lost my life today, because I was trying to help someone who was mentally unstable.
‘Remember you are not alone domestic violence is a killer.’
Mark McLean, 32, stabbed his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend outside her home in Balcatta, Perth, on the morning of March 24
Ms Ball has bravely spoken out about her toxic relationship with the tattooed FIFO worker 13 years her senior, saying she often felt ‘trapped and stuck’
Ms Ball had only known her attacker for four months and said the horrific stabbing was the peak of a long string of violence.
The night before she was attacked, Ms Ball’s neighbours called the police on the 32-year-old when they saw him run from the house with a knife.
She took him to hospital after he threatened suicide.
But McLean discharged himself from hospital and was on meth, ecstasy and diazepam when he broke into the woman’s home the next morning.
He kicked down her door and was wielding a knife as he began to make threats.
She grabbed a knife already in her room and was able to settle McLean, convincing him to hand over his weapon.
He obliged and she put both knives under her bed.
McLean left the home but returned a short time later. He was calm until the woman said: ‘I can’t do this anymore, you are too full on’.
He then pulled out another knife – which was hidden in his waistband – and stabbed her after he told his victim no one else could have her if he couldn’t .
Throughout the relationship McLean taunted and threatened the teenager (pictured), who tried to get help
McLean then pulled his victim towards the footpath and slammed her onto the concrete
‘I didn’t like him. He’d always come to my house, message me, call me and control me, but there was nothing I could do, I felt trapped and stuck,’ she said.
Ms Ball tried fighting McLean off her but ultimately knew ‘there was nothing’ she could do as he was ‘a lot more powerful’ than her.
Chilling CCTV vision shows the moment Ms Ball walked McLean down her driveway while rubbing his back affectionately in a bid to calm him down.
But in a split second his mood changed and he pulled a knife out of his waistband before carrying out a horrific act of domestic violence that almost killed her.
The footage showed him then pulling her towards the footpath and slamming her onto the concrete – only fleeing the scene when a neighbour came to her aid.
After the attack, McLean posted intimate photos of his former partner online.
He pleaded guilty to a charge of ‘with intent unlawfully to kill, committed an act or omission likely to endanger human life’.
Defence lawyer Richard Lawson told the court on Tuesday McLean fell madly in love with the woman and was ‘desperate’ to make the relationship work.
Ms Ball had only known her attacker for four months and said the horrific stabbing was the peak of a long string of violence. Pictured is her scar
McLean told his victim ‘if I can’t have you, no one can’ before stabbing her
‘She was 19, he was 31. So he was at that age where he was looking for something more permanent. The complainant on the other hand did not have the same intense feelings… [she] wasn’t that keen,’ Mr Lawson said.
Mr Lawson said his client became ‘extremely distressed’ and started using meth when the woman said she wanted an open relationship.
His behaviour became more ‘intense, volatile and erratic’, Mr Lawson said.
Prosecutor Nicholas Cogin said the victim had tried to help her attacker but ‘her life was severely affected by this drug-induced condition that he continued to persist with’.
Mr Cogin said it was ‘drug-induced mental health problems’ that sent McLean out of control.
McLean was jailed for nine years on Tuesday but will be eligible for parole in seven.
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