Dale Pipe: Joshua Henley attacked by Batman fanatic with a filleting knife 16 times Joshua Henley today told how he was stabbed repeatedly in the back He was covered in blood, but managed to turn to face his attacker Batman fanatic Dale Pipe, 21, had 10 knives and an axe in the attack Joshua head-butted Pipe and staggered into the gym reception The two had never met or spoken before unprovoked attack After his arrest Pipe tried to cut Joker smile into his own face Judge called him a 'very dangerous man' and detained him indefinitely By Becky Evans and Ulla Kloster A university graduate today relived the terrifying moment he was stabbed repeatedly in the back by a 'joker' obsessed bodybuilder. Fuelled by voices of Batman's joker, paranoid schizophrenic Dale Pipe attacked Joshua Henley with a filleting knife. He stabbed him repeatedly in the back and neck, after he was picked 'at random' in the gym changing area as he used a urinal. Scarred: Joshua's ear was partially cut off. The knife broke my left shoulder in various places. It went straight through me,' he said today Joshua, 22, today told of the moment, covered in blood, he managed to turn to face his attacker. 'We were just about nose to nose and I will never forget the look in his eyes,' he said. 'You wouldn't see a look like that in anybody's eyes in a film, or hopefully in real life, anywhere ever. I knew it was bad when I turned around and the blood was pouring out my neck. It was like an animal look in his eyes. He just wouldn't take his eyes off mine.' The 21-year-old attacker, who was armed with an axe and a selection of ten other knives, struck at the Bellevue Leisure Centre in Consett, County Durham. After he was barricaded into a toilet cubicle he sent out a Facebook post saying 'Why so serious?' - the catch phrase of the fictional hero's nemesis and identified himself as 'The Joker'. Yesterday Pipe was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order at Newcastle Crown Court after pleading guilty to attempted murder and having offensive weapons. Joshua managed to fight off his attacker by head-butting him and then staggered into the gym reception area where he collapsed. 'If there was any point when I thought I was going to die that was it,' he said. I was basically fighting with an ear chopped off, 16 stab wounds and two broken shoulders. Joshua had never met his attacker before and there were no words spoken prior to the sudden and unprovoked stabbing The graduate said: 'To make himself appear like the Joker, as far as I'm concerned, is something that he failed in doing because he hasn't frightened me. 'I wanted to see him in court to show him he's not scared me at all. He might have hurt me temporarily but I am on the road to being back where I was before. My ear got partially cut off. It went straight through me. It went in my neck and out the back of my neck. I was stabbed in the arm. The wound was about eight inches long. I was stabbed in the left leg, stabbed in the stomach, stabbed in the head and straight across where your spine is and low down in the abdomen. Joshua, pictured, had never met his attacker before and there were no words spoken prior to the sudden and unprovoked stabbing The Belle Vue Leisure centre, pictured, where Joshua Henley from Consett, County Durham was stabbed by bodybuilder Dale Pipe who has since been sentenced for his attempted murder. Joshua fled to the gym reception area Pipe waited for an hour before choosing Joshua Henley to attack at Belle Vue Leisure Centre (pictured) 'I got stabbed in the face, which I didn't realise till I got to hospital.' Joshua said he believes Pipe would have gone on to kill others that day had gym workers not stepped in to help. He added: 'The only reason he backed off was because he had no alternative. He couldn't get out of my grip and other people would have got involved at some point. He took the easy way out in my opinion. I was losing blood left, right and centre, quite literally, it was pretty surreal. High security: Judge James Goss detained Pipe indefinitely at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday Only Joshua's developed muscle mass protected his vital organs from the knife. When police later went to Pipe's home more knives and a haul of violent films were found. At Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday Judge James Goss QC sentenced Pipe, of Thornfield Road, Consett, to an indefinite hospital order, calling him a 'very dangerous young man'. The court heard that Pipe, a former chef, has had auditory hallucinations since the age of 14, the most influential of which was the joker. Whilst in prison, Pipe, who has since been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, mutilated himself in the face, after the 'voice' persuaded him to carve a joker face into his own. Mr Henley spent six hours in surgery and 12 days in hospital after the attack.