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Newport teen repeatedly stabbed behind college in 5-1 attack
The 18-year-old victim suffered a punctured lung after being knifed multiple times near the Coleg Gwent campus on Nash Road in the Lliswerry area of Newport.
The man was stabbed by a 17-year-old as they grappled on the ground with two other 17-year-olds assaulting him after he was chased at a football field.
He suffered injuries to his skull after being hit to the back of his head with an asp (a baton, often used by police) he was carrying which was grabbed from him.
Matthew Cobbe, prosecuting, told Newport Crown Court: 'The victim was stabbed, he was struck to the head, he was punched and he was kicked.'
A fourth assailant involved in the violence on the afternoon on Thursday, November 7 last year has not been identified while the fifth person did not join in the attack.
The teenager who beat the victim with the asp filmed the aftermath of assault during which the victim is asked for take off his Canada Goose jacket so that it could be taken.
Mr Cobbe played this footage which was posted on social media.
The victim is called a 'd*******' and refuses to give them his coat before walking off.
He was taken to Newport's Royal Gwent Hospital for treatment before being transferred to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
As well as the punctured lung, the stab wounds he suffered included cuts to his shoulder, back, buttocks, knee and foot.
He has 'managed to make a recovery', the court was told.
The motive for the assault wasn't clear, Mr Cobbe admitted, but there was 'bad feeling between two groups of young men'.
The victim had been expecting a one-on-one fight with one of his attackers before the others joined in.
The 17-year-old from Newport who stabbed him pleaded guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a bladed article in public.
The two other 17-year-olds, who are also from Newport, admitted inflicting grievous bodily harm.
That pair will be sentenced at Cwmbran youth court later this month on Monday, June 24.
Ieuan Bennett, representing the knifeman, said: 'He knows it's going to be a period of custody today.
'The defendant is 17 and was 16 at the time – he has no previous convictions.
'Insults had been traded on social media – some of it was bravado, some of it was not.
'He's never been in trouble before and he comes from a respectable family.'
Judge Daniel Williams told the defendant: 'It was a vile assault.
'You bought a knife online knowing there was going to be trouble in the next few days.'
He was sentenced to three years detention and told the time he had spent remanded in custody would count towards that term.
The judge sent his best wishes to the victim through his parents who attended court.
