A 10-year-old boy who was "one of the youngest people ever to receive an anti-social behaviour order" went on to become a teenage drugs gang boss but got stabbed 27 times with a machete.
Alfie Hodgin was locked up on Wednesday after being caught with more than £2,000 of heroin and crack cocaine while "slumped on the floor covered in blood" following the vicious attack. This "retribution" came after he had stolen drugs and a graft phone from a county lines ring which he had previously been working for.
The ECHO can now reveal how the now 18-year-old's involvement in the criminal justice system began at an alarmingly young age. In December 2014, when he was only 10, Hodgin was handed an ASBO at Wirral Magistrates' Court after "terrorising the community".
