Dudley man knifed driver in row over car crash
A father who plunged a blade into his victim’s chest after a car crash dispute has been given a suspended sentence.
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Geoffrey Clee left the man with a ‘significant injury’ after the victim and his friend went to ‘apologise’ for the Dudley collision, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.
The 50-year-old, who told arresting officers he wanted to kill the man, was handed a suspended sentence after Judge Dean Kershaw concluded he had the knife to ward off trouble or for protection.
Sentencing, the judge said: “When you were younger you were a thoroughly unpleasant man. You were violent when you drank too much and you did not control yourself.
"[But in the last 15 years] you have been a thoroughly good father and grandfather.
