This month in court saw 20-year-old Malick Jones, 20, locked up after he stabbed a man, leaving him fighting for his life in hospital. Jones pulled a knife from the back of his trousers, lunged toward the 22-year-old victim and stabbed him in the chest.
The attack happened in the outdoor seating area of a fast-food restaurant in Milton Street in Nottingham city centre shortly after 5pm on October 8, 2020. Jones, of Henning Gardens, Top Valley, appeared before Nottingham Crown Court on April 22. He pleaded guilty to wounding with intent, robbery and threatening a person with a bladed article. Jones was sentenced to nine years in a young offenders' institution and was also handed an indefinite restraining order. Read the full story here
And Julian Mead, 38, went to prison after he assaulted a woman after an argument in her home in the Whitemoor area of Nottingham, on October 18, 2021.