Wrexham,Caia Park,North Wales - Man jailed for role in serious stabbing attack

Published date: 10 January 2017 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A Wrexham man has been jailed for 30 months for his part in an attack involving a knife.

Telmo Bernardo, 20, was involved in an assault in Oswestry.

At Stafford Crown Court 24-year-old Arsene Cubaka was jailed for eight years for wounding Barry Wright with intent in January last year.

He was given a further two year sentence for wounding Iran Lane during a disturbance in Oswestry in December, 2015.

Mr Wright, 44, had to have his spleen and a kidney removed to save his life.

Irn Lane needed 40 stitches to wounds to his shoulder and chest from the broken bottle.

Cubaka, of Erdington, Birmingham, who had admitted both offences, was due to appear in court on Monday via a video link from prison, but refused to leave his cell and was sentenced in his absence.

Judge Michael Chambers QC said the incident at Castlefields in Oswestry a year ago was aggravated by it being a premeditated attack on Mr Wright and they had tracked him down to enforce a drug debt.

Two other men, Bernardo, 20, and Nathan McCarthy, 23, involved in the assault on Mr Wright were both sentenced to 30 months custody.

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Bernardo, of Glau Gors, Caia Park,Wrexham, and McCarthy, of Selly Oak, Birmingham, had admitted charges of wounding.

Drug dealer Luke Cross, 23, of Mount View, Sutton Coldfield, was jailed for two years having been convicted of making threats to Mr Wright’s family member.

The court heard all four defendants had previous convictions for violence, robbery and burglary and Cross had been jailed for an offence of wounding with intent. 

Cross and his three associates were involved in the supply of drugs in the Oswestry area and to Mr Wright who was a cocaine addict, the court was told.

He was attacked because the defendants believed he had taken £600 being kept safe for Cross at a home in Oswestry.

On January 23, Cubaka, Bernardo and McCarthy tracked Mr Wright to an address in Castlefields where he was assaulted and stabbed by Cubaka with a knife he got in the kitchen.

This caused injuries to his spleen and a kidney which had to be removed.

They were under instructions from Cross, who was flying back from Spain to recover the money.

The court heard a month earlier Cubaka had been involved in a disturbance in the Bailey Head area of Oswestry, during which he attacked Mr Lane with a broken bottle.

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