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Man jailed for footballer attack | Man jailed for footballer attack |
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A man who stabbed a footballer who was going out with his ex-girlfriend has been jailed for five and a half years. | |
Manchester Crown Court heard Robert Rimmer, 21, knifed West Bromwich Albion's Ronnie Wallwork in a bar in Manchester in November 2006. | Manchester Crown Court heard Robert Rimmer, 21, knifed West Bromwich Albion's Ronnie Wallwork in a bar in Manchester in November 2006. |
The 30-year-old former Manchester United player suffered cuts to his stomach, back and hand in the attack. He now plays for Huddersfield Town. | The 30-year-old former Manchester United player suffered cuts to his stomach, back and hand in the attack. He now plays for Huddersfield Town. |
Rimmer, of Gorton, Manchester, admitted wounding with intent. | Rimmer, of Gorton, Manchester, admitted wounding with intent. |
The court heard Mr Wallwork had incensed Rimmer when he walked into the Sugar Lounge bar with his girlfriend Amy Broadbent and refused Rimmer's request to leave. | |
Fish knife | |
Mr Justice Saunders told him: "You stabbed him on a number of occasions to the back and the abdomen - the most serious to the abdomen which would easily have proved fatal." | |
Mr Justice Saunders said the stabbing had caused Mr Wallwork, who was then playing for Barnsley, to suffer psychologically and had affected his football career. | |
He told Rimmer that the feelings of resentment he had for Mr Wallwork "cannot in any way justify what you did". | |
"What concerns me is the build up of anger which must have taken place in you over a period of time, until it erupted into this display of extreme violence using a knife," Mr Justice Saunders added. | |
Rimmer, of Abbey Hey Lane, Gorton, used a fish knife attached to his key ring in the attack last November, but it has never been recovered. | |
Rimmer's friend Charles Ebbrell, 27, of Hopkinson Avenue, Denton, Manchester, punched Mr Wallwork during the attack on him. | |
Ebbrell admitted affray and was given a four month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £578 costs. |
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