A man who was stabbed by a gang could have died if he had not been saved by a passing ambulance.
Lee Ashton knifed his victim, who was living in a tent in a park at the time, in the back due to his jealousy that he had begun a new relationship with his former partner. The frightening attack followed a crime spree in which the thug stole firearms during a burglary and robbed a cyclist at gunpoint.
Liverpool Crown Court heard yesterday, Monday, the 23-year-old had previously been in a relationship with Lauren Risley, with who he shares a four-year-old child. But Ashton, of Elston Avenue in Newton-le-Willows, "subjected her to domestic violence" and was later convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against her.
