When Rachel Poole looks at her one-year-old daughter Isabella, she’s overcome with emotion as she realises how close she came to losing her.

Rachel, 32, was eight and a half months pregnant when she was brutally attacked by her husband’s friend Corey Moss, then 19, in her home, leaving both her and her unborn baby fighting for their lives.

Shockingly, her horrified soldier husband Justin, who was working thousands of miles away, watched the ordeal through a Facetime video call.

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While Moss – who attacked Rachel because he owed the couple money - has since been jailed for 30 years, Rachel tells Closer she’s trying to put the ordeal behind her.

Rachel says: “It was horrific. One minute I was talking to Justin, the next I felt excruciating pain as Corey stabbed me in the head, neck and chest.

"I was terrified he'd kill me or that I could lose my baby. The attack has left me blind in one eye and nerve damage to my back means I now walk with a cane and can’t hold Isabella properly.

"But I’m just so glad she survived. Now I treasure every day with her.”

Read the full story in Closer magazine, out today