A motel owner in northern NSW has today described how a stabbing attack by a teenager left him fighting for life.

Mick Cikota, 52, was allegedly stabbed by a 13-year-old during a struggle at his Moree motel last month, leaving him with wounds to his arm and torso.

Cikota, who has lived at the premises with his family for 28 years, told 2GB's Ben Fordham he thought his "life was over" during the confrontation.

His ordeal began when five boys, aged from 11 to 15, allegedly broke into the motel.

Cikota confronted one of them in his 86-year-old mother-in-law's bedroom as the accused attacker held a knife over her, fearing he would "cut her throat".

"When I ran into the room, he had a knife over the top of my 86-year-old mother-in-law, and that's why we acted so quickly ... I was fearing

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