Derby Teenager Stabbed in Savage Street Ambush

A teenager was stabbed in the face six times in a horrific gang ambush.

Joshua Nugent was attacked as he sat in the passenger seat of a car which had stopped in Normanton. The 19-year-old suffered six wounds to the left side of his face and said the unprovoked attack left him with permanent physical scars and deafness in his left ear.

The knifeman, Kieran Skett, 20, has now been jailed for five years for the attack.

Derby Crown Court heard how Skett, along with three accomplices, lay in wait for Mr Nugent in Village Street on November 27.

Mr Nugent was being driven by his girlfriend when she stopped the car after seeing a friend by the roadside. The vehicle's door was wrenched open and Mr Skett attacked Mr Nugent.

Skett admitted wounding with intent and has been sentenced to five years in a young offenders' institution. The three accomplices – Jordan Kirkby and brothers Joshua and Dominic Berrisford – all admitted affray and were sentenced to 16 months.

Sentencing, Judge Michael Elsom said:

"It doesn't take much imagination to realise how terrifying the approach of you four to that car must have been. You won't have thought about that at the time because you all four to a greater or lesser extent had an idea of what you wanted to do, which was dragging Joshua Nugent out of the car. You had planned it."

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