A drunk thug stabbed a man multiple times as he jumped for his life from a window.
Karl McIntyre stabbed Anthony Owens in the leg and the arm with a 10 inch kitchen knife after a night of drinking.
McIntyre, 41, and his friend, Gary Davies, 32, had been invited into Mr Owens' flat, in Bootle, when they didn't have anywhere else to go.
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The group had been drinking with Davies' mum earlier in the evening of September 1, but Mr Owens and another friend left late that night.
Louise McCloskey, prosecuting, told Liverpool Crown Court that in the early hours, Gary Davies and Karl McIntyre turned up at Mr Owens' flat and were allowed in.
Miss McCloskey said: “What followed was an unprovoked attack on the complainant who had done nothing other than offer both defendants hospitality and kindness."
All the men had been drinking but suddenly without warning “McIntyre stood up and walked into the kitchen".
She added: “When he returned he was wearing a yellow Marigold glove on his right hand which now held a silver kitchen knife around 10 inches long.
“Karl McIntyre walked towards Mr Owens and held the knife to his throat saying ‘don’t be doing anything’.”
At this stage Davies was fighting with Mr Owens’ friend.
Miss McCloskey said: “Karl McIntyre shouted ‘shut up, I’ve just lost my bird and kids. I don’t give a f…’.
"Both defendants then demanded the complainant’s bank card and PIN number."
Mr Owens opened a drawer to find a pen to write his PIN number down when McIntyre took £110 that he had been keeping safe for an elderly friend.
Mr Owens gave him his mobile telephone, worth around £100, to McIntyre along with his flat keys and then he gave his bank card and pin number to Davies.
Davies left the flat whilst McIntyre, still armed with the knife, remained with the two men.
Miss McCloskey said: "Mr Owens, now genuinely fearing for his life and believing that he would be killed, decided to try to escape. He kept looking towards the open window of the first floor flat which made Karl McIntyre say ‘don’t f..ing try it Tony’.
"He decided to escape and ran to the window, he tried to climb out and was half way out when McIntyre realised what was happening ran to the window and began stabbing towards his leg causing a wound."
Mr Owens fell out of the window onto the roof below and rolled onto the pavement causing injuries to his arms and legs. He ran away and hid in nearby bushes until he saw McIntyre leaving and heard him on his telephone stating ‘he’s ran off’.
The victim asked a neighbour to call the police, who later arrived at the scene, and he was taken to Aintree Hospital.
Mr Owens had stitches in puncture wounds to his left arm and thigh. He had tenderness to his back and grazing to his arms.
His mobile phone was recovered and no cash was withdrawn from his bank but the £110 cash has not been found.
When arrested neither defendant made any comment.
In an impact statement, Mr Owens said he thought they were going to kill him and he had been left “unable to sleep and constantly looking over my shoulder thinking they were behind me".
McIntyre, of Pear Grove, Kensington, was ruled to be a dangerous offender in Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, March 7, and he was jailed for nine years with an extended licence of four years.
Davies, 32, of Oriel Road, Bootle, was jailed for six years nine months. Both men had pleaded guilty to robbery on the day their trial was due to start.
Jailing them Judge Clement Goldstone, QC said: “Mr Owens had invited you into his home as you had nowhere else to go and, as events turned out, the way in which you repaid his hospitality was truly shocking.”
He said that not surprisingly the victim tried to escape and when he did McIntyre stabbed his leg and arm and after he fell he suffered bruising.
Judge Goldstone imposed an indefinite restraining order on the defendants to keep away from the victim and his home in Oriel Road, Bootle.
The court heard Davies had 29 previous convictions for 40 offences including violence and McIntyre has 55 convictions for 86 offences including assaults, robbery and possessing an offensive weapon.
Jonathan Duffy, defending Davies, said that everyone had been drinking that night “an for reasons unknown to Gary Davies things went spectacularly wrong.”
He continued: "As soon as things escalated he left as quickly as he could. He was not present at the time the stabbing occurred."
Defence barrister Trevor Parry-Jones said McIntyre has had a troubled life and his relationship broke down and his mum, to whom he was close, died.
“There is a good side to him but there is something amiss in his life which needs to be dealt with.”
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