A schoolboy who became one of the 'youngest people ever to receive an anti-social behaviour order ' tried to become a drugs gang boss - only to end up getting stabbed nearly 30 times.
Alfie Hodgin, 18, was arrested after being caught with over €2,000 worth of heroin and crack cocaine while 'slumped on the floor covered in blood' in the aftermath of the vicious attack.
The incident came after it was revealed the teen stole drugs and a phone from a county lines ring - which he had been working for. On Wednesday, Hodgin was jailed for his crimes, reports the Liverpool Echo.
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Shockingly, this isn't the first time Hodgin has been in trouble with the law.
When he was only 10 - Hodgin was handed an ASBO (Anti Social Behaviour Order) at Wirral Magistrates' Court, having been found in 2014 to be "terrorising the community".
The order was in effect for two years and banned the schoolboy from "causing harassment, alarm or distress to members the public".
His brother John, then aged 14, had also received an ASBO just a month before Alfie was slapped with his.
It is believed that the two youths were "part of a gang involved in a series of incidents in the north end" of Birkenhead, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside.
Originally, the teen had been put to work by an organised crime group to pay off some debts, but he turned it into his own operation after stealing their phone and drugs.
Naturally, this incensed the group, who attacked Hodgin with machetes in a street in Ellesmere Port town centre in the early evening of July 14 this year.
The assailants approached the victim in a grey SUV before jumping out and attacking him.
Then, they left him lying in a pool of his own blood, suffering from 27 stab wounds.
Hodgin spent two weeks in hospital, such were the seriousness of his injuries. But that was far from the end of his problems.
Upon his arrest, police officers slapped the cuffs on him - because he had been found in possession of £1,220 of heroin and £1,100 of crack cocaine at the time of his assault, as well as £1,208 and the graft phone.
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