A 20-year-old who hit a shopkeeper over the head with a golf club and stabbed a shopping centre security guard has been sentenced to nearly five years in jail.
Luke McSharry, who had a long history of offending, took part in a ‘frenzied attack’ on Middleton Shopping Centre security guard, Paul McLaughlin, on August 14 last year. The week before McSharry had made threats to Mr McLaughlin saying he would “stab you up”.
On the 14th McSharry saw Mr McLaughlin again, becoming abusive and calling him a ‘fat c**t’ and again that he would ‘cut him up’. Mr McLaughlin took hold of him and there was a ‘scuffle’, according to prosecutor Hugh McKee at Manchester Minshull Street Court.
