A 20 YEAR OLD MAN WHO VICIOUSLY STABBED AN OFF DUT

A 20 YEAR OLD MAN WHO VICIOUSLY STABBED AN OFF DUTY
POLICEMAN FIVE TIMES OUTSIDE A PECKHAM PUB WAS SENTENCED TO 12
MONTHS YOUTH CUSTODY ON THURSDAY.

PC IAN SIMPSON,28, WAS ENJOYING A NIGHT OUT WITH THREE
OTHER OFFICERS AFTER FINISHING HIS SHIFT AT EAST DULWICH POLICE
STATION INNER LONDON CROWN COURT HEARD.

BUT WHILE THE OFFICERS WERE DRINKING IN KELLY’S PUB IN
PECKHAM THEY SPOKE TO VICTOR HUTSON,WHO WAS SEEN IN THE TOILETS
SMOKING CANNABIS.

PC SIMPSON ‘WARNED HUTSON ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOUR’ AND A
FELLOW OFFICER SPOKE TO THE LANDLORD SAID MR EDWARD JENKINS
PROSECUTING.

HUTSON, WAS EJECTED BY THE LANDLORD AND THE DOORMAN BUT
WHEN PC SIMPSON SPOKE TO HIM AGAIN ON THE PAVEMENT OUTSIDE
HUTSON ATTACKED HIM.

PC SIMPSON WAS GRABBED BY HIS LAPELS AND STABBED IN THE
CHEST AS HE FELL FORWARD HE WAS STABBED IN THE BACK AND SIDE
SAID COUNSEL.

HUTSON RAN OFF STILL BRANDISHING THE KNIFE AND WAS HEARD
TO SHOUT AT OTHER OFFICERS ‘COME ON I’LL KILL YOU AS WELL.

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PC SIMPSON WAS RUSHED TO KINGS COLLEGE HOSPITAL AND HAD
A THREE AND A HALF INCH STAB WOUND WHICH HAD PENETRATED TO HIS
BREAST BONE.

AT AN EARLIER HEARING HUTSON WAS CLEARED OF WOUNDING
WITH INTENT BY A JURY AFTER HE CLAIMED HE WAS ACTING IN SELF
DEFENCE AND THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO BE ATTACKED BY THE OFFICER.

BUT HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF WOUNDING PC SIMPSON ON
OCTOBER 12 LAST YEAR AND JUDGE LOWNIE REMANDED HIM IN CUSTODY
FOR SOCIAL ENQUIRY REPORTS TO BE PREPARED.

SENTENCING HUTSON,A PLUMBER OF MISSENDEN HOUSE,
AYLESBURY ESTATE, PECKHAM JUDGE LOWNIE SAID; ‘I HAVE A DUTY TO
THE PUBLIC AND THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO DEAL WITH THE SERIOUS
NATURE OF THIS OFFENCE BUT TO PASS A SENTENCE OF YOUTH CUSTODY.

HE ADDED: ‘I HAVE A DUTY TO DISCOURAGE THE YOUTH OF THIS
DISTRICT FROM CARRYING KNIVES.

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