A man from the Forest of Dean has been jailed after attacking another man with a knife in a Gloucester flat on Christmas Eve last year (2024).
Daniel Mann, aged 22, and of Leominster Road, Dymock, was sentenced when he appeared at Gloucester Crown Court yesterday (Wednesday 18 September).
He had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to wounding with intent, threatening a person with an offensive weapon, and common assault.
Mann had been arrested following the attack on a man and woman at an address on Cromwell Street on 24 December.
The court heard that there were discrepancies between the accounts given by the two victims and Mann as to what had led to the attack.
Prosecutor Georgia Lurcombe told the court that it was likely that the woman, who was known to Mann, had gone to the address to buy drugs.
A short while later, Mann had arrived with two unidentified men. Armed with a knife, he had launched a 10 minute attack on the man, before dragging the woman out of the property.
His victim was left with wounds to his head, shoulder, elbow, abdomen, thigh and knee, including a slash across the left side of his face that went from his mouth across his cheek.
In mitigation, the court heard that Mann may have had concerns for the welfare of the woman, but that later he could not recall the reason why he had gone to the address.
Sentencing Mann, Judge Rupert Lowe said: “Exactly what you were doing there is not easy to discern, but I do not have to be completely clear about that.
“The fact is you went there for reasons that you may have not been clear about yourself, but you went armed and disguised in order to beat this man up, which you did.”
In a Victim Personal Statement to the court, the male victim said: “Before I was attacked, I was so happy. I was physically fit and had a good life. I was attacked and everything changed.
“For around two months after the attack, I was continuously in pain. I had constant headaches, struggled to eat because I couldn’t chew or swallow properly and struggled to move my body.
“I am struggling mentally. I am struggling to accept why this has happened to me. Whenever I see the scar on my face, I am reminded of what happened to me. I sit and stay at home because I am too scared to go outside.”
Mann was jailed for five years for the count of wounding with intent, reduced to three years and nine months following an early guilty plea.
He was sentenced to a further six months for threatening a person with an offensive weapon, and four months for the common assault, both to run concurrently with the previous sentence. Mann was told he must serve half before being eligible for release.
A five year restraining order was also put in place against the male victim.
