A man was stabbed with a machete in the middle of a busy town centre in a vicious attack which left him needing surgery and stitches.
Joshua Jones' victim Luke Phillips was out shopping with his family in Cwmbran last year when he was slashed in the leg with a large knife in front of several onlookers, sustaining blood loss and injuries which required surgery and stitches.
A sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday heard Jones, of Maesglas Crescent, Newport, was out on licence from a previous conviction for his part in a 2018 incident which saw him and another man attack a motorist by spraying ammonia in in his face and stabbing him when he carried out last year's attack.
