Stab victim Mark Judge's heart was exposed, court hears Mark Judge leaves at the District Court, Downing Centre in Sydney / Pic: Brad Hunter Source: DailyTelegraph THE attack on bikies associate Mark Judge was so severe that repeated stab wounds exposed his heart and bowel, a court heard yesterday. David Jonathon Thackray, 32, from Bondi, is standing trial in the Downing Centre District Court on a charge of recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm by attacking Judge in 2011. The court heard Thackray was cloaked in a black hoodie and armed with a pistol, fitted with a silencer, during the assault at Judge's Bellevue Hill apartment. Judge was allegedly stabbed after Thackray attempted to pull the trigger of the pistol but Judge fought back. Even though Judge told police he couldn't identify his attacker, Crown prosecutor Christopher Maxwell QC told the jury that DNA from under Judge's fingernails and from a black plastic cable tie pointed to Thackray as the culprit. In his opening address on the first day of the trial, Mr Maxwell said Judge's stab wounds were so deep his heart was visible and one metre of his small bowel was protruding from the wound. He said Judge was stabbed while entering the lift of his apartment building from a secure carpark. "Sensing his danger he grabbed the pistol with his right hand, a fierce struggle between the two followed," Mr Max- well said. Mr Judge will say his attacker appeared to be attempting to pull the trigger of the gun. Mr Judge will say that the gun did not go off; he will say also that such was his focus on disarming the man he used both hands to grapple for the gun and wrestle it from him. The struggle continued some little time. Mr Judge attempted to throw the man off him but he realised that he had little or no strength to throw the man off him. He will say at that time he realised that he had been stabbed a number of times to his body and he was bleed- ing heavily from his wounds. Mr Maxwell said Judge managed to free himself from Thackray's grasp and stagger across the street from his apartment where he collapsed in a park. Bystanders called an ambulance and Judge was rushed to St Vincent's Hospital where he was taken into emergency surgery to repair multiple stab wounds to his left neck and his left chest. He was in intensive care for five days and was released from St Vincent's after eight days. Mr Maxwell said a black plastic cable tie found on the garage floor contained "a DNA profile consistent with the profile of" Thackray. "That is expected to occur in one in 900 million people in the general population," he said. A fingernail clipping taken from Judge at the hospital was also found to have DNA "consistent with Mr Thackray." The jury heard that Judge was unable to identify his attacker to police, only giving a description of a "25 to 30-year-old" man. He could not recall what his attacker's face looked like, and said his attacker was "wearing a black hooded jumper and a baseball cap." The case continues.