Three-year jail term for knife-attack teenager who did not want uncle buying heroin for his father

A teenage boy who stabbed his uncle in the chest because he did not want him to buy heroin for his father has been jailed for three years.

Passing sentence at the Central Criminal Court today (Mon), Mr Justice Alexander Owens said the attack was "a one-sided affair" and the teenager had been accustomed to carrying a knife in the period leading up to the attack.