A thug who was caged for randomly stabbing a man in the leg at his ex’s home today lost an appeal against his sentence.
Paul Christopher Gibson stabbed 25-year-old Craig Gibson twice at the Saltersgill house in October 2013.
The drunken criminal, 30, admitted intentional wounding and was jailed at Teesside Crown Court last June.
He was handed a seven-and-a-half year custodial term, with an extra two-and-a-half years to serve on licence after that.
Today, he complained that that was too harsh, but saw his case thrown out by Lord Justice Beatson, Mr Justice Globe and Mrs Justice Swift.
The Court of Appeal heard the victim had used a phone belonging to his attacker’s ex while at her home.
He accidentally called the thug, who was drunk and immediately headed around to the Forber Road house.
Inside, he threatened the victim with the knife before plunging it twice into his thigh.
The knifeman, of Sandling Court, Marton, already had a long list of convictions to his name.
They included serious assaults, one involving a stabbing at a party and another a bottling.
Lawyers for the attacker today argued that the sentence was too harsh as the crown court judge had wrongly found him to be a ‘dangerous’ offender.
Rejecting the appeal, Mr Justice Globe said: ‘The circumstances of this offence were extremely serious.
“There were numerous examples of violent offending in the past of varying seriousness.
“There were marked similarities between this offending and the other two offences of wounding with a weapon in the recent past.
“There were issues of binge drinking that had continued to cause him to offend in a variety of different ways.
“Not only was the recorder entitled to reach a conclusion that Gibson was a dangerous offender, but this conclusion was justified and correct.’
The sentence was upheld.
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