A man has been jailed for stabbing a man in the leg with a kitchen knife while drunk on vodka after the victim made fun of his bald head.
Konrad Dadum, 33, of Henry Taylor Street, Flint, admitted wounding Dariusz Dejniczuk but was cleared of a more serious charge of wounding him with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
He was sent to prison for 12 months at Mold Crown Court .
Brett Williamson, prosecuting, said on May 21, Mr Dejniczuk visited his friend Pawel Demidowicz at Maes Alaw in Flint.
They settled down to watch some football on the TV and had some drink.
Dadum was upstairs – he had shaved his head earlier and had been drinking.
When he went downstairs, Mr Dejniczuk poked fun at him about his bald head, it was alleged.
Dadum, perhaps because of the drink he had consumed, over-reacted and 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. A deliberate act of violence,” he said.
A belt was used as a make-shift tourniquet around Mr Dejniczuk’s thigh to try and slow or stop the flow of blood, which was “squirting high into the air”.
The court heard earlier that Dadum claimed he had only intending to scare him by pretending to stab him, but misjudged it.
The victim had a stab wound to the front of the left thigh. It needed stitching and he was kept in hospital overnight.
In evidence, the defendant said that he was shocked when he saw all the blood.
Matthew Dunford, defending, said that his client – who followed the proceedings with the aid of a Polish interpreter - was a hard working man who had been in the UK for 11 years and a reference showed that he was regarded as a model employee.
Judge Rhys Rowlands said that it was drunken violence with the use of a dangerous weapon,
He said: “You reacted in an extreme way simply because you were very drunk. Drink made you aggressive.
“You decided to teach him a lesson taking hold of a knife. It was a large kitchen knife.
“You were told to put it down which you did, only to pick it up again a short time later and took it to the living room to show him who was boss.”
Judge Rowlands said it was “sheer good fortune” that he was not more seriously injured.
A victim impact statement showed
Mr Dejniczuk had lost a month’s work.
“He was no threat to you. He was sitting down on the sofa at all times. You behaved in a cowardly and extremely dangerous way in large measure because of the drink,” Judge Rowlands said.
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