Two teenagers have been locked up after a violent daylight attack on two drunken women in their 40s, leaving one needing 177 stitches.
One victim needed surgery after being slashed to the bone, while the other suffered a double jaw fracture, after incident on recreation ground
One of the victims in the Mold recreation ground attack, Louise Parry-Jones, was slashed with a knife through tendons down to the bone on her arm as she tried to defend her friend who was on the floor.
The friend, Shelly Waters, was repeatedly kicked to the face and suffered a double jaw fracture, which needed surgery and plates, screws and wire to fix, and a lost tooth.
At Mold Crown Court today Rhys Nze, 18, of Canning Street, Liverpool, received three years and four months detention in a young offenders’ institution for the stabbing after admitting wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Co-defendant Callum McLavey, 18, of Fletcher Street, Rockferry, received 14 months after he admitted GBH on Shelly Waters, to be served consecutively with a two and a half year sentence he received earlier this month for drug supply offences in Mold.
Pair in area 'intent on no good'
Both defendants had travelled from the Liverpool area on May 23 “intent on no good” when they were approached by the women.
Prosecutor David Mainstone described how violence was sparked after a silver car with a smashed window was left on Miss Jones’ driveway at Bryn Garmon.
A third woman approached them at the property with the keys to the vehicle and said she was returning it to Foxy, McLavey’s nickname, and a fight broke out between her and Miss Waters.
The prosecutor said Miss Jones knew McLavey sold drugs at “The Rec” and went there with the car keys to confront him.
Miss Waters walked behind McLavey and put her arm around his neck in a light handed manner.
It was then Nze jumped up and pushed her before producing a knife with a retractable blade.
Ms Parry-Jones intervened and put her arm in front of her friend and the knife cut her between the wrist and elbow.
McLavey’s reaction was to run up and kick the first woman to the head while she was defenceless on the ground.
She was knocked unconscious and they both ran away. They were arrested a week later in Mold but made no comment interviews.
Judge Niclas Parry told them it was not a pre-meditated attack and there was an element of provocation.
'Your reaction was frightening'
“I accept that their irrational behaviour would have taken you by surprise,” the Judge told McLavey, “but your reaction was frightening and displayed a dreadful capability for violence.”
Andrew Green, for Nze, said he deserved credit for pleading guilty although it was after the jury had been sworn in for his trial.
An unusual feature of the case was the complainants conceded they were extremely intoxicated and had a short time earlier been involved in a fight with another woman.
Oliver King, for McLavey, said his client had been a high achiever with a promising future but a number of dramatic life experiences including his father leaving and illness within the family which led him to get involved in criminal gangs and go off the rails.
McLavey accepted he had grossly over-reacted to what should have been a joke by one of the women.
Speaking after the case Det Con Ross Tutton of Flintshire CID said: “I am pleased with the outcome today following the sentencing of these two young violent males. The actions they took in May this year in a busy family recreational area during daytime hours are beyond comprehension.”
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