Domingos Monteiro who was given three years' detention for stabbing another teenager.
Ipswich: Teen stabbed youth in back during park attack
COLIN ADWENT
Crime Correspondent
Saturday, March 9, 2013
11:00 AM
A 17-year-old on bail for robbery plunged a six-inch knife into a teenager who had his back turned, while children played around them.
Domingos Monteiro, of London Road, Ipswich, is today beginning three years in detention in a young offenders’ institution.
Monteiro, now 18, had pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court to grievous bodily harm at Ipswich Crown Court.
The knife attack took place in Alderman Road recreation ground on November 8 last year.
Sentencing Monteiro, Recorder Craig Ferguson said: “This was a disgraceful attack in broad daylight in a public place while young children were playing.
“You used it (the knife) clinically - not in the heat of a struggle, and offensively.
“You had every opportunity to withdraw after the initial altercation and leave the park.
“As a young man on bail your instinct should have led you away from trouble.
“When (the victim) had turned his back in an attempt to escape your reach you plunged it into his shoulder.”
The court heard it caused a deep one-inch wound near the collarbone. The 18-year-old victim also sustained a second slightly longer wound to his upper left arm.
A pre-sentencing report praised by the judge showed Monteiro was at high risk of causing serious harm to the public.
It was also revealed that while in detention awaiting sentence he had been involved in a number of incidents, including one where violence had occurred.
Monteiro was part of a large group at the time, but did not use violence himself.
The wounding in Alderman Road occurred at around 4.30pm on November 8.
Monteiro had gone to the park where the victim was due to meet friends to play football.
An argument broke out and insults were exchanged. The pair were separated by others after they grabbed each others clothing and Monteiro had tried to slap the teenager’s face.
The prosecution claimed Monteiro walked away and returned 15 minutes later with the knife.
However, the court heard as part of Monteiro’s plea he said he did not leave the park and the knife was in a bag he had with him.
At the time of the incident Monteiro was on bail after appearing at Inner London Crown Court on a robbery charge.
After being given bail he came to Ipswich to live.
Monteiro was one of three people who mugged a woman for her i-phone outside Plaistow underground station on August 15.
He was sentenced to nine months detention for that offence to run concurrently with the three years he was given for grievous bodily harm.
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9 comments
Domingos Monteiro, you say? And how many contributions has he put in the pot? Labour voters should pay the costs of crime by non-indigenous criminals, they voted to bring them here.
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Supernova6
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Three years in detention in a young offenders’ institution? He is 18? Should he be in a Big Mans prison?
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an idea
Sunday, March 10, 2013
scum,hes pure scum.he thinks hes a big man and he has to STAB a man when his backs turned.
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itchy
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Careful @PC Plod! That kind of question could land you in the kangaroo court of the politically correct. I think the easy answer is that "people like him" with what seems a Portuguese sounding name has access to the UK through the EU open bordersaccess regime. If only the UK authorities had the ability to pick and chose whom they granted entry it might be a different story.
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Steve Blake
Saturday, March 9, 2013
So after 3 years in a young offenders holiday home are we expected to believe that this chap will come out a nice, reformed well rounded guy? I wonder how many more people will be stabbed by this guy before he is given any real punishment. Will this country ever get tough on crime?
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RC
Saturday, March 9, 2013
why only 3 years ,,if they keep dishing out silly punishment like this we will never stop this knife crime ,, 5 years should have been the sentence
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MIGUEL100
Saturday, March 9, 2013
lovely person ! the start of a nice prison career...... if the justice system was harsher i think we would not see these crimes so often 20 years minimum i would say for harming and 5 years minimum for robbery for a iphone !
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rumbler
Saturday, March 9, 2013
If this idiot is such a isk to the public why has heonly been sentenced to three years? I thank the judge for protecting us!!
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Concerned of Suffolk
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Why are there people like him in this country?
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PC Plod
Saturday, March 9, 2013