Nottingham Man Jailed After Machete Attack Leaves Victim With Leg Amputated

Mason Knight, 24, jailed for 19 years after a brutal machete attack in Nottingham left a victim needing leg amputation. Judge says he ‘destroyed a life’.

A Nottingham man who stabbed a partygoer with a machete after being called by the wrong name has been jailed for 19 years.

Mason Knight, 24, of Chesil Avenue, Radford, attacked the victim during a car journey to an after-party in the early hours of 26 April. Prosecutor Thomas Welshman told Nottingham Crown Court that Knight “flipped out” when a passenger addressed him incorrectly, pulling a machete from a sheath and stabbing him through the leg.

The wound was so severe surgeons were forced to amputate. Knight then demanded, “Give me everything you have got,” and robbed the two men of jewellery worth around £4,500. The driver, who has not been prosecuted, left them in Grassington Road, where one man improvised a tourniquet with a T-shirt to stem the bleeding.

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Judge Stuart Rafferty KC said: “In just a few minutes, for no reason at all, you destroyed a man’s life. So fuelled with hatred were you that you drove the weapon completely through his lower leg. He could easily have bled to death.”

Knight admitted wounding with intent, possession of a bladed article and theft. He has previous convictions for knife and drug offences and was previously sent to a young offender institution.

He will serve at least two-thirds of his 14-year custodial term before he can apply for parole, followed by a five-year extended licence.

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