Drunk thug stabbed mourners at pub wake
SEVEN-AND-A-HALF-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE
TWO brothers were stabbed and their sister slashed in the face after a stranger lashed out with a weapon at a family wake. Mourners were at the Crusader pub, in Hartness Road, Clifton, after a funeral on May 21, 2019, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Monday.
As they gathered in one room, Chantelle Phillips noticed Kyle Parkin – who was wearing a high visibility vest and was drunk – repeatedly walking past her table.
He asked for her name and number and whether he could buy her a drink. She declined and he moved to another area of the pub. But her brother, Daniel Phillips, noticed Parkin staring at him in what he believed to be a confrontational manner. Parkin, who had been drinking heavily and had been using cocaine the night before, had his hand in his right pocket holding an object. Daniel Phillips interpreted that as Parkin letting him know he had an object. Daniel and his brother, Lee Phillips, went to the bar and it was there that Parkin went to his pocket again. Daniel believed he was going for a knife, so Daniel punched Parkin, knocking him down. Parkin stood up and pulled out what was thought at the time to be a knife – but he said later it was a “dry walling tool” – and thrust it towards Lee Phillips stabbing him in the ribs. Daniel pulled his brother towards a function room but Parkin followed them with the weapon held down by his side. Chantelle Phillips saw Parkin shouting in Daniel’s face, so she stood between him and her brother, and told Parkin to “go away”. “What is plain is the bar erupted as a crowd of people surged forward trying to disarm the defendant and eject him from the pub,” said Jon Fountain, prosecuting.
Ms Phillips was slashed in the face and Daniel stabbed in his left leg and in his ribs.
Mr Fountain said: “The defendant did not willingly relinquish the weapon to the crowd or go
peacefully and there was a fracas between two function rooms before he left the pub.”
Lee Phillips was coughing blood and had a punctured lung.
In a statement, he said he remains wary of people and spoke of how one night “wrecked my life”.
Daniel Phillips needed 16 stitches to close a wound to his leg.
His statement revealed that he suffered paranoia about being on his own and rarely goes out of the house.
Ms Phillips had a slash wound to her left eyelid and a small wound to the corner of the same eye which required four stitches.
She said it was fortunate the wound was not half-an-inch lower.
She has nightmares about the offender coming back and getting into her house.
Parkin, 32, of Dungannon Road, Clifton, was on bail for the pub incident when he was found outside The Fairham pub, in Clifton, on April 12, in the driver’s seat of a car displaying false plates.
He had a kitchen knife in a man bag which he claimed he had found after lending the car to another person.
He admitted three charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and two offences of possessing a bladed article.
His total sentence was sevenand-a-half years in custody and four-and-a-half years on extended licence.
Judge James Sampson said he found Parkin to be “dangerous”. He will be eligible for release after serving two thirds of his prison sentence.
Of the offences, the judge said Parkin was drunk and probably under the influence of cocaine “given your habits”.
Matthew Smith, mitigating, said Parkin, who has 23 previous convictions for 66 offences, including affray and robbery, was a selfemployed labourer at the time, building walls, and the tool was in his pocket. He had four or five drinks after work.
Sergeant Stephanie Clough, from Nottinghamshire Police, said: “It is clear Parkin intended to cause serious harm during these violent assaults.
“Parkin has caused considerable physical and mental damage to the victims as a result of this horrific incident.
“I hope it brings them some closure and comfort now this dangerous man has been taken off our streets for a lengthy period of time”.