Crikey! His face says it all really.

Steve Irwin knew he was dying after a massive stingray stabbed him in the chest hundreds of times, the only witness to the 2006 attack has said in his first detailed public account of the conservationist’s death.

The cameraman with Steve Irwin at the time of his death has described how a stingray’s jagged barb pierced the Crocodile Hunter’s chest “like hot butter”.