A teenager was stabbed 27 times by a gang of men with machetes after trying to take over the running of a drugs ring.
Alfie Hodgin's dealing was uncovered by police after they found him lying in the street in a pool of his own blood, and with more than £2,000 of heroin and crack cocaine. This vicious assault had been an act of "retribution" after the 18-year-old had stolen drugs and a graft phone belonging to the county lines operation he had previously been working for.
Liverpool Crown Court heard today, Wednesday, that officers rushed to Westminster Road in Ellesmere Port town centre at around 5.15pm on July 14 this year after the teen was discovered "slumped on the floor covered in blood". Derek Jones, prosecuting, said he had "clearly been subjected to a serious assault with weapons, thought to be machetes".
