The victim of a violent burglary has told how he "fought for his life" in the brutal attack by a gang of armed men.
University law lecturer Paul Kohler needed facial reconstruction surgery after sustaining a fractured eye socket in the burglary at the home he shares with his wife and four daughters.
He told the Daily Mail of his ordeal and said he feels he was either the victim of mistaken identity or a "stupid assumption" the couple were sitting on a pile of cash because they own a bar in Covent Garden.
From his hospital bed, Mr Kohler, 55, who is head of law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, said: "Within me domain I had this hostile force and I felt incredibly protective. I had my family there and this whole notion of an Englishman's home is his castle - that was the feeling. I realised I'd stupidly let into my own house someone who was out to create havoc, and there's a real sense of fear and panic.
"But I felt I had to defend my home and my family. I really was fighting for my life."
Mr Kohler opened the front door to whom he believed may have been open of his daughter's friends but found four balaclava-clad men bursting into his home, before they assaulted him and repeatedly shouted: ''Where's the money?''
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