Sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here to keep abreast of what's happening in your neighbourhood A teenager sliced a woman’s thumb off with a kitchen knife during a heated argument on a residential street.
Jake Slate, then 17, told his victim ‘I’ll stab you up now you little muppet' after whipping a large kitchen knife from the waistband of his shorts and ‘lunging’ at her during the spat last September.
A video showing the severed digit was circulated on social media in the wake of the violent attack, which happened in Hyde, Tameside.
Slate is now starting a lengthy sentence in custody after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm and having a bladed article in a public place at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
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