A teen who stabbed another boy in the chest was told by a judge he was lucky not to be facing a murder charge.
Kyle Barton plunged the six-inch kitchen knife into the 16-year-old boy’s chest in a city centre street causing a lung to collapse and penetrating his liver. Liverpool Crown Court heard Barton, now 17, had chased and threatened to stab the victim and his friend in an earlier incident seven months previously after a dispute about a bicycle.
Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, said the incident happened at 4pm on November 24, 2021, when the victim was waiting for a bus on Renshaw Street after leaving college. She said the two young men knew each other after an earlier incident between Barton and the victim’s friend, who argued after a disagreement about the purchase of a bike.
