AN angry father who took the law into his own hands because he thought his young son was being bullied at school has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
AN angry father who took the law into his own hands because he thought his young son was being bullied at school has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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Brian Horne
Stephen Savage, 38, ambushed the father of another five-year-old boy he blamed for making his son cry and lashed out with a knife.
Victim William Punshon, 38, suffered 13 stab wounds and later received an apology from police, who admitted they had ignored warnings that Savage had threatened to strike.
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