Two and half years in prison for man who stabbed another in the back
It happened in Gainsborough back in February
A man who stabbed another in the back as he rode past him on an e-bike has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
23-year-old Harvey Emmingham, of Sorrell Sykes Close, Rotherham, who previously lived in the Gainsborough area, attacked his victim in the early hours of Tuesday 18 February this year.
The Force control room received a call received at 00.36am that a man has been injured in Gainsborough, and officers were dispatched to a property in the town. There, they found the victim, and man in his 40s, with a stab wound in the middle of his back.
Paramedics arrived a short time later and provided initial treatment before he was taken to hospital.
The man had been walking along Trinity Street, Gainsborough with his partner between 00.10am and 00.30am when Emmingham rode past on an e-bike several times making threats to assault him.
The pair had changed course, but Emmingham then came back, riding up behind the victim when he was on a footpath by Dickenson Terrace, and stabbed him in the back before riding off.
Following swift work to understand the circumstances and identify the suspect, officers then tracked Emmingham down a property in Bob Rainsforth Way, Gainsborough, around one and half miles away from where the assault had taken place. They had located him at 3am, around two and a half hours after the call, and he was arrested.
While there, officers noted an e-bike. In the days that followed, hours of CCTV footage was scoured with the help of colleagues at West Lindsey District Council, and Emmingham was directly linked to the incident by matching the clothing he was wearing, as well as the e-bike, with the man seen on CCTV when the offence took place. They further tracked his movements on camera, which matched witness statements.
Emmingham was also seen on private CCTV disguising himself and arming himself with a knife prior to the attack.
He and his victim knew each other.
He was charged in the morning of 19 February with grevious bodily harm (GBH) and possession of a knife/ sharp pointed article in a public place. He was remanded into custody, and remained in custody following a hearing at Lincoln Magistrates' Court.
He pleaded guilty to the offence at a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court on 4 August.
Today, he has been sentenced to two years and six months for grievous bodily harm, with a 12 month sentence or possession of a bladed article in a public place to run concurrently.
This has been the result of combined effort by officers across departments, including response, firearms, CID, tactical search teams and CSI, as well as the civilian staff who processed the case file and digital exhibits – all of whom deserve credit for this outcome.