A man abducted a 12-year-old boy, got stabbed then tried to hotwire a motorbike.
Andrew Cooper met the youngster in a chance encounter, took him away on a train and was then slashed in the chest with a knife over a drug debt. His drunken and unexplained actions were described as "bizarre" by a judge.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that the youngster, whom he had never met before, and his friend were "chilling" in his flat at around 5pm on July 12 this year after a "chance meeting". They played football and listened to music together before the complainant's pal left at roughly 10pm, leaving him alone in the property.
