Jail for sex industry stabbing
One of the youngest people placed on the methadone programme at a Christchurch rehabilitation centre has been jailed for over four years for stabbing a man in a sex industry fracas last May.
Daniel William Taylor, 20, admitted a charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, during his trial in November.
Christchurch District Court Judge Paul Kellar said Taylor went to Manchester Street to drop of a girl who was a street worker. Later he saw the victim’s car and started yelling at a woman sitting in it about money he said she owed him.
The victim got out of the car and Taylor lunged at him with a knife, stabbing him in the chest injuring his lung, cutting him in the buttocks, and cutting his hand, severing a tendon.
Defence counsel Tim McKenzie said Taylor had difficulties in his upbringing, and had already been in Odyssey House for his drug issues.
He said Taylor had no-one in court to support him at his sentencing, and he was remorseful.
He wanted to address his drug addiction in prison, with a view to doing another programme at Odyssey House on parole, Mr McKenzie said.
Judge Kellar said it was serious violence by Taylor, who was the youngest person to be inducted into a methadone programme at Odyssey House.
Young men did not think about the consequences of their actions, and Taylor had serious drug abuse issues, he said.
He sentenced Taylor to four years six months prison.
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