Man admits stabbing victim with screwdriver in the street

A MAN has appeared in court over an incident in a Derbyshire that left a person with multiple stab wounds.

Caleb Putter, 21, was accused of assaulting the a 44-year-old man in Nelson Street, Swadlincote, on November 15, last year. He was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possession of a bladed article.

At a hearing in Derby Crown Court yesterday, he denied wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm but he did enter a guilty plea to causing grievous bodily harm without intent and possessing a bladed article.

William Bennett, defending, told the court Putter accepted he had a bladed article, a tyre repair tool, but claimed this had not been used in the incident.

He said: “The defendant accepts causing the wounds that were caused to the complainant but he says they weren’t caused with the weapon he had in his bag. He says he caused these with a screwdriver that the complainant was armed with.”

Mr Bennett said Putter claims to have disarmed the complainant and hit him with it, before dropping it and punching him multiple times.

“He accepts he went beyond lawful self-defence,” he said. Mr Bennett added that no DNA evidence had been found on the tyre repair tool linking the item to the complainant.

Putter, of Hollycroft Road, Birmingham, was granted conditional bail ahead of a hearing at Derby Crown Court on November 4 to determine whether the Crown Prosecution Service accepts the plea.