Traveller faces jail for cutting off rival’s hand

A traveller is facing years behind bars for slicing off the hand of another gipsy with a machete in a family feud. Victim Francis Doherty, 21, was attacked by Miles Connors, 23, who left his hand lying in the road. Surgeons later managed to stitch his hand back on his arm after the incident in a residential street in Northolt, west London. Prosecutor Roger Smart said the two families had been at war for some time after Miles Connors made…