The 39-year-old man was stabbed with a knife at a Goldens Rd, Forster house around 6pm, and the blade pierced the flesh underneath his jaw.

“It must have been a huge wound, because he ran over to a witness sitting in a car outside,” Manning Great Lakes Inspector Neil Stephens said.

“The witness gave him a towel to hold on the wound, and police attended a short time later and found the injured man lying on the ground holding the towel around his neck.”

Paramedics stemmed the blood flowing from the wounded man’s neck, and returned him to a stable condition.

A 33-year-old woman in the house at the time of the stabbing was arrested, but the man insisted she was not his attacker.

“The man claimed he had inflicted the wound on himself. Police are looking for any witnesses who saw what happened,” Inspector Stephens said.

“No-one’s been charged over the incident yet.”

Police blocked each end of Goldens Rd with patrol cars for over an hour, and questioned residents about their reasons for entering the street before letting them through. The house where the man was stabbed was cordoned off by forensics officers, and police seized the knife.