Axe attacker who chopped arm in Xbox argument is jailed

Kieran Gordon was jailed for six-and-a-half years for at Nottingham Crown Court for attacking a man with an axe in a dispute over an Xbox.
A MAN had his arm chopped open to the bone with an axe in a row over an Xbox.

Lee Evans could not open his hand for six months because of the injury.

It was a year before police caught up with his attacker, Kieran Gordon, arrested after he stabbed a man in the buttocks on September 5 last year.

At Nottingham Crown Court, the 22-year-old admitted two charges of wounding and was jailed for six-and-a-half years.


He was sentenced to a further 12 months, to run concurrently, for possessing the knife.

In relation to the Xbox incident, Judge Dudley Bennett told him: "This was an unprovoked attack on a perfectly innocent man."

The court heard Mr Evans had been staying at a friend's flat in Sneinton when Gordon went round with the Xbox in November 2008.

Mr Evans took the games console after one of his friends agreed to buy it.

The next day Gordon wanted payment or the Xbox back and went to Mr Evans' flat.

Although Mr Evans said he was the "middle man", Gordon said he was owed money and pulled out the axe.

The knife attack was on a man from West Bridgford accused of spiking another man's drink. Gordon got out a knife and stabbed him, causing a one-inch cut.

Adrian Langdale, mitigating, said Gordon came from a normal background and finished school with a number of GCSEs.

"Things went downhill after his first conviction," he said. "He was 16 when he got four years."

Judge Bennett previously sentenced Gordon, of no fixed address, in February 2005.

He gave the defendant four years for stamping on a man's head at a bus stop in Queen Street in Nottingham city centre.

The stamp caused a blood clot on the victim's brain and he was in hospital for a week.

Gordon got a nine-month sentence in March 2009 for possession of an axe.

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