Published date: 09 November 2016 |
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A man who used a kitchen knife to carry out a stabbing has been told to prepare to be jailed later this week.
The man from Flint, who had been drinking vodka, went to get a knife and stabbed another man in the leg, causing blood to squirt high up into the air.
Konrad Dadum, 33, admitted wounding Dariusz Dejniczuk but said it was an accident.
He denied wounding him with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm and was cleared by a Mold Crown Court jury yesterday.
Dadum claimed he only intended to scare him by pretending to stab him, but misjudged the situation.
Barrister Brett Williamson, prosecuting, told the court the issue for the jury was whether Dadum intended to cause the complainant really serious harm.
He said: “In short, the prosecution allege, that following an afternoon of drinking vodka, the defendant became angry at being verbally abused.
“He collected a kitchen knife and forced his way into the living room by pushing past another man and stabbed Dariusz Dejniczuk in the leg with the knife.”
Mr Williamson said: “He no doubt instantly regretted what he had done but, to take a knife into one’s hand and to use it in violence by stabbing out, the Crown say he could only have intended to cause really serious harm.”
Really serious harm was caused – it was a stab wound to the front of the left thigh about four to five cm in length, Mr Williamson said. It required stitching and he was kept in overnight.
The court heard that on May 21 Mr Dejnieczuk visited his friend, Pawel Demidowicz, at Maes Alaw in Flint.
Mr Dejniczuk had known Dadum as a housemate of his friend for a couple of years. They settled down to watch football on the television and had some drink.
Dadum was upstairs. He shaved his head earlier and had been drinking. When he went downstairs, Mr Dejniczuk poked fun at him about his bald head and used an insulting term, it was alleged.
The defendant, perhaps because of the drink he had consumed, over-reacted, Mr Williamson said.
“He went into the kitchen and removed a knife from the knife block,” the court heard.
The other man told him to put the knife away. Moments later, Dadum lunged forward at Mr Dejniczuk.
“The defendant, holding the knife with the blade pointing down, raised the knife in the air and stabbed the blade downwards into his leg,” Mr Williamson alleged
It was “a deliberate act of violence”.
Dadum was disarmed, the emergency services were called, and he was escorted upstairs but he began to struggle. A belt was used as a makeshift tourniquet around Mr Dejniczuk’s thigh to try to slow or stop the flow of blood, which was “squirting high into the air”.
Mr Dejniczuk was taken by ambulance to Glan Clwyd Hospital where he was found to have that single stab wound to the leg. He was admitted overnight and his wound was stitched.
The prosecution case was Dadum had lost his temper.
Interviewed, he said he started drinking after work at about 3pm and had about seven or eight shots of vodka in his bedroom.
At about 8pm, he went downstairs to make some food. When downstairs, the complainant called him names and he lost his temper as he was preparing some food with a knife.
Dadum said he pushed the knife forward to scare Mr Dejniczuk but the knife went into his leg.
His intention was only to scare the victim for calling him names, not to stab him, he said.
In evidence, he said he was shocked when he saw all the blood.
Questioned by his barrister Matthew Dunford, Dadum said: “I don’t know how it happened.
“I accept that it happened and I was aware it had happened when I saw the blood pouring.
“I did not believe I had done it. I was shocked. I don’t remember what happened afterwards.”
After the verdict Judge Rhys Rowlands bailed him pending sentence later this week, but said Dadum had to prepare himself for custody
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