A WESTBURY mum whose son was left partially blind after a ‘fake’ Assassin’s Creed toy impaled his eyeball has issued a warning over cheap imported toys on Amazon.

Joel Perrett, 15, suffered devastating injuries in May last year when the safety catch on his £20 gauntlet slipped and the plastic blade shot out.

It fired upwards, piercing his left eyeball and tearing his iris, leaving him in excruciating pain with impaired vision.

His mum, Sarah, said: "Every time I think about Christmas time and people buying stuff from Amazon and what has happened to us, it makes my stomach turn.

"If I had a time machine, I would never have bought it.

"We thought it would be fine as the blade is only plastic and is bendy, however the end is quite sharp and it is spring loaded, so shoots out at speed.

"I want to warn people of the dangers of buying items on Amazon from abroad because it things go wrong, there is no legal protection whatsoever.

"It has been a huge amount of trauma and we felt so isolated. There was no one that could help."

Assassin's Creed's makers, Ubisoft, insists it is not to blame because the toy did not come from an authorised distributor and is 'highly probably' a fake.

The toy, which Miss Perrett bought for Joel's 13th birthday, is a gauntlet which straps to your arm with a bendy plastic sword inside.

The spring-loaded blade is supposed to fire out when the wearer takes off the safety catch and presses the launch button.

But when Joel lifted his arm to speak on the phone while wearing the product, it brushed against his side, knocked the safety catch off and hit the set off button.

Miss Perrett said: "I had my back turned and didn't see what had happened. I just heard this click and then this crumple.

"When I looked round he was lying on the floor, so I said 'what are you doing down there?' but he was all dazed.

"I got him up off the floor and brought him into the lounge. He was saying 'my eye, my eye,' - he couldn't open it.”

Surgeons put seven stitches in Joel’s eye and he has since regained some of his sight but still struggles with bright lights and sun, unable even to look at a whiteboard, and suffers panic attacks.

Amazon said the product was removed from sale after they were contacted by Wiltshire Trading Standards and the seller is no longer active on the site.

A spokesman said: "All Marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don't will be subject to action including potential removal of their account.

"The product in question is no longer available."