Thug gets 17 years for pub knife rampage
has been jailed following two knife
AN angry boyfriend went on an ‘explosive’ knife rampage in a pub after his partner had a row with another woman.
Mason Gorman was already under investigation by police for inflicting lifethreatening stab wounds on a different victim in a brutal assault several months earlier. His second attack left four people with serious knife injuries, including a young mum who suffered a 5cm slash across her face and a fractured vertebrae.
The 21-year-old, from Broughton, Salford, has been jailed for a 17 years, with an extended three years afterwards on licence and ruled that he must serve at least two-thirds of the time before applying for parole.
Gorman was at the Stocks Hotel in Walkden at around 9.50pm on August 23 last year when the assault began.
He had been out that night with his partner, Caitlin Holland, prosecutor John Kennerley explained at Stockport magistrates court – where some cases from Manchester’s Minshull Street Crown Court are currently being heard.
Holland got into a row with another woman, Megan Cuffright, outside the pub, which was spotted by Gorman who first threw a drink over Ms Cuffright and then punched her in the face.
Holland then began to scuffle with the victim, prompting Gorman to wade back into the fray and repeatedly punch and kick Ms Cuffright while she was on the ground.
CCTV footage displayed in court then showed him briefly walking away from the women before pulling a knife from the bag he was carrying.
Gorman stabbed his victim twice in the face and in the back before she could flee back into the pub. He then began a furious assault on a number of other people, stabbing both Christopher Brennan and Anthony Jackson who were trying to protect the fleeing woman.
A fourth man, Peter Jackson, took a chair from inside the building and followed Gorman outside where he attempted to find off the knifeman.
But, Mr Jackson slipped and fell to the ground where Gorman stabbed him and then chased him around the seating area outside the pub and slashed him a second time.
Police quickly arrived to stop the frenzy and Gorman threw the 10-inch knife he was carrying under a nearby car before they could arrest him.
When officers detained him, he said: “Someone t***ing my bird, I’m not going to allow that.”
Gorman was under investigation for a separate incident at the time of the attack, knifing a man and puncturing his lung – leaving him needing a blood transfusion.
Defending Gorman, Richard Varden said: “He takes full responsibility for his actions.”
Sentencing Gorman, judge Mr Recorder Harris said: “Your behaviour was violent, chilling, impulsive and motivated it seems by a sense of being wronged. Your reaction was to use a weapon which you still carried with you.”