A man has been jailed for nine years after a court heard he lunged at another man with a knife and stabbed him six times – after earlier appearing to sharpen it by running it along a pavement.

Kyle Mark Rochelle, aged 27, of no fixed abode, was originally charged with attempted murder but his guilty plea to wounding with intent to cause GBH was accepted at an earlier hearing.

Co-defendant Cody James Allen, 19, of Woodland Road, Colwyn Bay, who admitted ABH on the same victim when the attempted murder charge against him was dropped, received 14 months youth detention.

A court heard how he first struck the victim by swinging a dog chain at him.

Judge Rhys Rowlands, sitting at Mold Crown Court, made a ten year restraining order under which they are not to approach the victim.

Victim Alex Dean Pattinson, 23, at Woodland Road, Colwyn Bay, told how his life had been charged for ever after the early morning stabbing on June 17.

Mr Pattinson received a number of stab wounds to the chest, his lung and liver were affected, and he had a swollen and injured head.

He immediately left Colwyn Bay and said he had no intention of returning.

Judge Rowlands said that it was another example of young men who chose to arm themselves with weapons and end up using them in the street in North Wales, with serious consequences.

Prosecuting barrister Sion ap Mihangel said Mr Pattinson sustained very serious injuries to his chest following “a violent and unpleasant assault” involving both defendants, to varying degrees who were armed with different types of weapons.

The precursor to the main assault seemed to have been an altercation in a public house, The Prince Madoc, in Colwyn Bay earlier that night.

When the victim got back to his flat a brick was thrown through the window.

After some sort of challenge, the victim and three others left his flat and made their way towards the library.

CCTV showed that Rochelle was agitated and behaving aggressively, he kicked out at a lamp post and the library fence and at one stage was sitting on the pavement with what appears to be a knife in his hand.

“It appears as if he was sharpening the knife or at least running it along the side of the pavement,” said Mr ap Mihangel.

At 3.33am the group of four arrived at Woodlands Road. When Rochelle was inside.

Alex Pattinson was the first to approach the flat door and he and the others started to back away when they heard a voice say get the knives.

Allen came to the door with a dog chain in his hand and he was swinging it around, hitting Pattinson on the back of the neck/shoulder area.

It left whip marks, the prosecutor said.

Allen swung the chain again and Pattinson grabbed hold of his hand and managed to tackle him to the floor.

“Both males fell to the floor with Pattinson on top of Allen.

“Allen continued hitting him with the chain while he was on the floor.

“Others saw Kyle Rochelle in the doorway as Allen was swinging the chain.

“He had with him what is described as a bread knife and he was waving it around.

“When Pattinson fell to the floor Rochelle was seen to run up to him and, as one witness described, plunge the knife repeatedly into his stomach area.

“Pattinson cannot say precisely who did what when he fell to the floor; he certainly recalls Allen trying to hit him with the chain and Rochelle striking him,” the prosecutor said.

He later said ‘there were blows coming in from all angles’

Allen got to his feet and began swinging the chain towards others. They moved a wheelie bin in an attempt to protect themselves.

Pattinson managed to get to his feet, realised he had been stabbed repeatedly.

“Allen was still behaving aggressively with the chain while Rochelle, by now without his top, was in the doorway,” the prosecutor said.

Eventually, both defendants re-entered the flat.

Pattinson was bleeding heavily and at Glan Clwyd Hospital a doctor found signs of trauma around the head and six or seven penetrative wounds to the right side of his chest, and a collapsed lung. He had fluid around the liver which was also injured and was transferred to the trauma unit in Stoke.

Pathologist Dr Brian Rogers said the victim sustained six stab wounds to the chest and four incised wounds to the head.

He said deeper penetration could easily have caused more serious and life-threatening bleeding.

In a victim impact statement, Pattinson told how he had been in immense pain, recovery had been slow, and he had moved from the Colwyn Bay area after the attack, with no intention of returning.

“I know I will never look or feel the same as I did before the attack,” he said.

“It is not an exaggeration to say that my life changed completely that night.”

Simon Killeen, for Rochelle, said his client was lightly convicted.

His mental state had changed massively since the attack.

He accepted that he needed medication for depression and that the drugs he had been taking at the time did not help his mental health.

Duncan Bould, for Allen, who had no previous convictions, made the impulsive mistake of going out with the chain to scare and used it as a weapon.

He was taken to the floor and the evidence suggested that he was under Mr Pattinson as the incident developed. He had no idea that Rochelle had a knife.