A STABBING victim has been jailed after he knifed another man in a revenge attack in Sneinton on January 2.
Daniel King, 28, of Newark Crescent, Sneinton, had driven past the 22-year-old victim. Recognising him as a friend of someone who had stabbed him years before, King stabbed him in the stomach with a large kitchen knife and sped away.
When passers-by discovered the man bleeding they drove him to Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, where he was operated on and spent five days in an induced coma. He was eventually discharged and has since recovered.
King, who handed himself in to police two weeks later, had already pleaded guilty to grievous bodily harm and possessing a bladed article. At Nottingham Crown Court yesterday he was jailed for three years jail for the attack and two for possession, to run concurrently.
He had also pleaded guilty to producing cannabis and received a further year, to run consecutively, leading to a total of four years behind bars.
Detective Inspector Lee Young said: "Had King not felt the need to carry a kitchen knife in his car, this whole brutal affair may very well have been avoided. Instead a young man narrowly missed being killed. If you carry a knife you are much more likely to reach for it. You are also much more likely to be targeted."
The person who stabbed King has also been jailed.