Man jailed after frenzied knife attack
A 46-year-old who stabbed two men in a flat near Hart Street in Maidstone has been jailed for nine years.
Leon Samuel, pictured, left his victims with multiple injuries after what police described as a “frenzied” knife assault at Westree Court. Woolwich Crown Court heard that Samuel, of Albert Murray Close, Gravesend, had visited the address after a night out and grabbed the weapon from a knife block during an altercation.
The attack happened during the early hours of October 26 last year.
One of his victims became trapped on a balcony as he tried to flee to safety.
Samuel was heard to repeatedly scream ‘I will kill you’, before the man was stabbed several times.
The second victim was injured while trying to prevent Samuel reaching the balcony. He suffered deep lacerations to his arms.
Samuel pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm and to inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Dog owners are being urged to keep their pets on a lead around livestock after more than 20 attacks were reported in four months in Kent.
Between December 1 and March 2, there were 24 incidents involving sheep, cows and other farm animals, which often left them maimed and having to be euthanised.
The most recent was reported last Monday at 5pm in Loose, near Maidstone. Two sheep were attacked by a dog with one of them suffering an injury to its head.
Sgt Darren Walshaw, of Kent Police’s Rural Task Force, said: “We are now in the early stages of lambing season and we have already seen cases where pregnant ewes have miscarried after being chased by dogs.
“If you are in charge of a dog that chases or attacks livestock on agricultural land then you could be prosecuted.”