"I've got a knife, I’ll do you" - 'Jealous' thug stabbed stranger in taxi row minutes after shouting at girlfriend over Snapchat video
23.08.2022 - 20:37
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A thug threatened a passerby with a knife after they challenged him over his behaviour towards his girlfriend - minutes later he stabbed another man following a row over a taxi. Jordan Darcy, 22, was on a night out on February 19 this year with his partner when they got into an argument.
Darcy, of Rochdale, believed she was laughing at a Snapchat video involving her former partner, Minshull Street Crown Cour t heard.
During the row he shouted at her saying: “How dare you laugh at your ex-boyfriend, it’s so disrespectful, get the f*** away from me”. A member of the bar staff at the pub in Middleton asked the woman if she was OK whilst in the toilet, shortly before the couple left.
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“At this point the defendant started to push her down the street and she was pleading with him to stop,” prosecutor Alison Whalley told the court. “During this, a passerby was going past when he said to ‘leave her alone’.
“The defendant replied: “I have got a knife, I’ll do you.” He believed this was a threat to stab him. The defendant then pulled out a knife, dropped it before picking it back up.”
The knife was described as being three inches in length. They both began to walk off but later came into view on another street, and Darcy again threatened to ‘do them in’.
Darcy’s partner ‘begged’ him not to do anything before they both walked away, after which he grabbed her by the neck and ‘lifted her off the ground’ and pushed her before telling her it was ‘all her fault’.
Afterwards he apologised and she asked to go home, but he instead suggested going to the Middleton Archer pub, and she agreed as there would be other people present. The couple stayed