An army veteran launched a terrifying knife attack on a shopkeeper after he refused to serve him credit. Carl Hayward, 34, walked up to the First Convenience Store in Burnage, hiding a kitchen knife up his sleeve.
After asking the man for credit he was refused and became aggressive. Hayward, of Gorton, then called the man a ‘p****’ before asking him to ‘come outside’.
“It was his [shopkeeper’s] understanding that this was for a fight,” David Lees, prosecuting, told Manchester Crown Court. “The defendant left the shop and then came back to the doorway where he produced a kitchen knife from his sleeve before lunging towards him.”
