Brave mum, 50, reveals she survived ex-boyfriend’s stabbing rampage by playing dead and thinking of her kids
Gillian McCann Johnston, 50, was knifed multiple times by jailed Martin Mahon, 59, before he turned the weapon on himself
A MUM-of two who survived a horror stabbing in the US has told how she begged her evil ex for her life as he plunged a kitchen knife into her neck.
Gillian McCann Johnston, 50, described how crazed Martin Mahon, 59, knifed her multiple times despite her cries for her children back home in Ireland.
She only survived the shocking attack after playing dead on the floor of her Florida home.
Mahon, who is also Irish, then turned the kitchen knife on himself, slitting his own throat.
Last week he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for the October 2014 murder bid.
Recalling the horror for the first time, brave Gillian, originally from the Lisburn area, said: “As I was lying on the floor and the blood was pumping out I just thought, I’m going to die.
“Then I thought of my kids and I imagined someone calling my daughter in Ireland to tell her I was dead. That’s when I started to fight back.
“I was begging him, what about my children, your children? My grandkids, your grandkids? You can’t do this to them. He didn’t care.
“He said that he had nothing to live for and that if he couldn’t have me, no-one could.”
Demented Mahon set upon his ex-girlfriend, who runs a successful cleaning business, after sneaking into her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida as she put out the bins.