Salman Rushdie on Tuesday came face to face with the man accused of nearly killing him, describing the attack in gruesome detail in court — where he took off his glasses to reveal his blind right eye.

The author says he felt like he was lying in "a lake of blood" after he was attacked on stage in New York state.

Salman Rushdie is expected to come face to face with the man accused of attempting to murder him in court today. The Satanic Verses author is likely to appear as a witness in the case, more than two years after he was stabbed more than a dozen times in a frenzied knife attack which left him blind in one eye.