-
Fairfield Road
Teenager was stabbed with hidden knife
A doctor’s son stabbed a teenager in the back outside a Kingston leisure centre with a knife he had hidden behind a town centre bin weeks before.
The Tolworth teenager, 17, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison at Kingston Crown Court today for the 4pm stabbing of 19-year-old Jordan Beard outside the Kingfisher leisure centre on April 10.
Defence lawyer Rebecca Lee said the defendant, who has a string of previous convictions including robbery and possession of an offensive weapon, had been badly affected by his separation from his mother who works as a doctor. She argued that his sentence should be more lenient because of his family difficulties and the fact that he pleaded guilty to the charge of grievous bodily harm with intent before the case went to trial.
The court heard how the two teenagers had been friends but fell out weeks before the fight and agreed to meet outside the Fairfield Road leisure centre to fight. Victim Mr Beard had “thrown a punch” first before the defendant pulled a knife from his waistband and stabbed Mr Beard in the side and then the back near his shoulder. Judge Tapping warned that the defendant would have to serve a further two years on licence after his release from prison and, had the defendant been an adult, the starting sentence would have been 10 years.
By posting content on Surbiton.com, you agree to adhere to the following guidelines.
- Your username and password must only be used by you, keep them safe. If a posting is made using your username and password it will be considered to have been posted by you. If you have a friend who wants to use our site and post messages on the site, show them how to register.
- Be courteous at all times, inciting racial hatred, posting abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libellous or sexually explicit material or any material that is found to be offensive is not acceptable and we may suspend your username and password.
- Retaliating to offensive posts causes more problems for other users on the discussion boards. Just report such messages to us using the Feedback link which is available at the top of every page or the 'report this' link associated with individual postings. We will act on every report we receive.
- Please respect other people's work and do not post material that infringes copyright.
- Do not post information that you know to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law. You should only post material that you know to be public knowledge. If you have any doubts do not post it on the site.
- Never attempt to gain unauthorised access to any area of the site. This is known as hacking and is illegal.
- Content posted represents the opinions of the author, and does not represent the opinions of Surbiton.com or its affiliates and has not been approved or issued by Surbiton.com. You should be aware that the other participants are strangers to you and may make statements which may be misleading, deceptive or wrong.
- Spoofing or posing as another user is unacceptable. Anonymous users' postings should always be considered with suspicion.
- Help keep Surbiton.com a safe place for information and opinion. Please alert us of any anti-social behaviour as described above.
Surbiton.com 1998 - 2024
Comments
Post new comment