Attempted murderer jailed for 'savage' knife attack

Ian Pemberton stabbed a 43-year-old man multiple times in a "fit of uncontrollable rage"

A man has been jailed after committing a "savage attack" that left his victim in a coma.

Ian Pemberton, 62, of Cliff Road, Hornsea, East Yorkshire, used a kitchen knife to stab a 43-year-old man multiple times at the victim's home in the town last August.

PC Tanya Binnington said it was an unprovoked attack in which Pemberton "stabbed the first defenceless person who came to the door".

Pemberton pleaded guilty to attempted murder on 24 February at Hull Crown Court and was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison on Wednesday.

'Uncontrollable rage'

PC Binnington said: "This was a frightful, unprovoked attack where Pemberton stormed round to the house of someone he knew armed with a kitchen knife looking for someone else, but instead stabbed the first defenceless person who came to the door in a fit of uncontrollable rage.

"The victim sustained a severe stab wound to his chest causing a bleed in his lung, and another that narrowly avoided the artery in his neck.

"Medical professionals had to place him in an induced coma where he remained for three days. He is lucky to be alive."

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