The accused knife-wielding home invader who terrorized an Upper West Side family for hours last week had a cold, haunting look in his eyes — even more than a decade ago, another victim told The Post.

Suspect Daniel Omolukun was just 18 in December 2006 when he and brass knuckles-wearing accomplice Michael Reno robbed and mercilessly beat Ray Anello as the victim was walking from a cab to his West Village home.

“I knew the guy with the brass knuckles wasn’t the danger — the danger was Daniel Omolukun,” Anello said.

“You had to see Omolukun’s eyes. He has so much rage in him.”

At trial, even Omolukun’s own mother testified against him — and apologized to Anello.

Anello, now retired but then a 57-year-old Newsweek editor, said he was outside his Bank Street home when he first “got hit from behind like a football tackle.

“The guy from behind was taller than me and was able to get me into a very strong chokehold.

“It was Daniel Omolukun.”

Omolukun — now 30 and charged with tying up and robbing a woman and her mother in their West 78th Street home Thursday — and Reno, 19, dragged a kicking Anello into a small hallway inside his building, the victim said.

“I kept fighting, and this obviously pissed off Daniel Omolukun, and he nodded to” Reno, Anello said. Reno “took out brass knuckles and started hitting me in the face. … Blood started spurting all over the walls and the floor.”

But even as Anello was being worked over by Reno, it was Omolukun who terrified him, he said.

“I had gotten a look at both of them. The guy with the brass knuckles had human eyes,” Anello said. “Daniel Omolukun did not.”

“ ‘You better f–king stop, or I’m going to f–k you up really bad,’ ” Omolukun snarled, according to Anello. “I just thought, ‘F–k, my life is going to be over on this filthy hallway floor.’ ”

Anello stopped resisting and forked over his wallet, backpack and keys, satisfying Omolukun and Reno enough to walk off, leaving their victim lying in a growing pool of blood.

As they were leaving, Anello asked the duo if they could at least leave him his keys so he could head inside and clean himself up.

Omolukun “turned around and said, ‘No f–king way,’ and he left,” Anello said.

The left side of his face swollen to twice the size of the right, Anello made his way to the hospital — and, adding insult to injury, returned home the next night to find his apartment ransacked.

Cops eventually nabbed Reno and Omolukun, and both men were convicted. Omokulun pleaded guilty to the crime in 2013 during his third trial — ending a courtroom saga that saw Omolukun use his own mother as an alibi, only for her to testify against him and apologize to Anello, the victim said.

“I had the best prosecutor,” said Anello of then-ADA Alex Spiro, whose determination to bring Omolukun to justice offered a small respite from Anello’s lingering knee problems and struggle to get “my belief in people back.”

Now a criminal defense lawyer, Spiro declined to discuss the case.

“Mr. Anello went through a tremendous ordeal, but I can’t comment on the details of the case,” Spiro said.

Omolukun has been arrested more than a dozen times and served at least two separate stints behind bars. He was paroled in August and living in a Washington Heights men’s shelter when he allegedly carried out the harrowing knifepoint robbery last Thursday.

“The fact that he has gotten out and done it again means he is very dangerous,” Anello said. “Some people need to be put away for good because they are a permanent danger.”

Additional reporting by Aaron Feis