18-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO FILMED HIMSELF DANCING WITH KNIFE HE USED TO STAB A COUPLE HAS BEEN JAILED
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An 18-year-old filmed on Snapchat dancing with the knife he had just used to stab a couple has been jailed.
Javone Meade was captured on CCTV using the blade to stab the pair outside their daughter’s apartment block on Mabgate in Leeds.
A judge said it was ‘a miracle’ no-one was killed but the family was left ‘utterly devastated’ by the psychological effects of the attack.
Meade was ordered to serve a minimum term of five years and 110 days’ detention.
Leeds Crown Court was shown CCTV footage of a group of seven young people appearing in the street as the couple were smoking, shortly before midnight on March 31 this year.
The couple’s car lights were seen lighting up, indicating it had just been locked.
One of the young males walked over and kicked the car and the couple’s daughter confronted them.
Prosecutor Ben Campbell said the couple’s daughter was pushed up against a wall and punched by several members of the group.
As the wife tried to defend their daughter, Meade ran over and stabbed her in the stomach.
He then approached the husband and stabbed him in the back.
Several members of the group were seen trying to hold Meade back before they all left the scene.
The couple’s daughter called the emergency services before running upstairs to grab towels for her bleeding parents, who were both hospitalised.
The court was also shown a 10-second Snapchat video which was filmed just an hour after the attack.
In it, Meade can be seen topless and dancing in a house with at least one other member of the group.
Speaking in court, the female victim said thought she was going die and worried how it would affect her family who were already grieving for others.
She required surgery as the knife had caused lacerations to several of her internal organs.
She said she had not returned to work as a nurse since the attack, as she is still recovering physically and has also been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Her husband also said he was worried she would die, telling the judge: “She is my life.”
Their daughter said she already suffered from anxiety and depression and now rarely leaves the house.
Meade, of Francis Street in Chapeltown, Leeds, was arrested at home hours after the attack.
He initially denied the offences but later told a psychiatrist he carries a knife to protect himself because he has been attacked in the past.
Meade pleaded guilty to two counts of wounding with intent, one count of possession of a bladed article, and one count of violent disorder.
He has three previous convictions for possession of a bladed article and other previous convictions for violence.
The court heard he tried to attack a member of staff in custody with a sharpened toothbrush.
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