Thug stabbed his drug dealer 15 times on his doorstep in argument over £25 debt
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A man stabbed his drug dealer 15 times and left him "lucky to be alive" over a £25 debt, a court heard. Darren Spencer, 30, launched the attack on Connor Mutch after they "bickered over a £25 debt and a broken window". The victim was knifed in the face, back and chest outside his own flat and left with a punctured lung as well as a permanent scar on his face.
Liverpool Crown Court was told Spencer and Mr Mutch, 26, had a "connection concerning drugs", with the latter said to have supplied the former with cocaine previously. The two men had been drinking and taking drugs at Mr Mutch's apartment on Cross Hey in Litherland in the early hours of April 17 when they began to "bicker over a debt of about £25 and a broken window".
Gareth Roberts, prosecuting, described how the defendant was told to leave as a result of this exchange and while he did so, he then subsequently returned at around 8am and "barged into" the property. A struggle then ensued at the front door, during which Spencer punched Mr Mutch in the face before pulling out a knife and chasing him into a communal garden where a council employee had been working moments beforehand. The victim was then repeatedly stabbed to the chest, back and face.
Spencer ran from the scene and left him "struggling to breathe on the floor". Mr Mutch was subsequently taken to Aintree Hospital and had to undergo surgery, with one of the blows from the knife having caused a collapsed left lung, reported the Liverpool Echo. In a statement which was read out to the court on his behalf, the dad to an 11-year-old daughter detailed how he has been left with a "large scar" on his face which serves as a "constant reminder of what went on". He added: "Looking back, I genuinely believe I could have died that day and I feel lucky to be alive.".
