A teenage boy stabbed a man he met on Grindr 14 times with a kitchen knife, then lied and said he had been “tricked” into believing the victim was a woman.
It remains unclear why Dexter Davis carried out a “frenzied attack” on a man he met online. A judge at Swansea Crown Court told an 18-year-old boy he was lucky not to be convicted of murder after being found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. Ta.
Mr Davies showed no emotion during the hearing, Wales Online reported. Prosecutor James Hartson said the defendant initiated contact with the man's profile on an internet dating app in September last year. Mr Davis called himself Danny and claimed to be 18 when he was actually 17. He and the man exchanged messages and later met.
The two men spent time together at the man's home in Port Talbot and engaged in “consensual sexual activity”. The court said there were no concerns about Davies' behavior at that stage, the pair appeared to be enjoying each other's company and had “parted amicably”.
Prosecutors said the man did not expect to hear from Davis again, but eight days later the defendant contacted him using a different profile name on Grindr. As the two chat, it quickly becomes clear who the new profile belongs to, and the two agree to meet again.
The court heard they visited the man's home again and Davis asked the man, who is in his 40s, if he had handcuffs and a blindfold, which the man did not have. The defendant told the man that he had an idea, and instructed him to lie down facing him while pulling the man's T-shirt over his head.
The court heard the man felt the teenager's hands on his body and at first thought the defendant was giving him a massage, but then heard a series of what appeared to be punches to his back. I heard that he felt it was given to him with great power. During the assault, Davis maintained his silence.
The court heard the man was able to stand up and turn around and appeared “shocked” to see the defendant holding a large kitchen knife in his hand. Davis then smashed the knife into the man's face.
The victim screamed at Davis and the boy fled the property and into a neighbor's garden, discarding the knife in the process. Ms. Davis told her neighbor, who turned out to be a man, that he had met a woman who had tried to stab him and asked if he could use her phone to call her mother. Ta.
Prosecutors said Davis' claims that there was some kind of “subterfuge” were completely unsubstantiated and part of an attempt by the boy to hide the victim's name, which included “experts.” “He was trying to continue to mislead us,” he said. involved in an incident. The court heard that police were contacted and the defendant was arrested.
In the interview, he answered “no comment” to all questions. Detectives recovered a knife from near the victim's home, and the court heard officers were given permission to inspect the knife at the defendant's parents' home, but the knife they recovered matched the brand of the knife found in the home. Matched the type.
Meanwhile, the victim was taken to hospital where doctors found 14 stab wounds and other wounds on his back, shoulder and face. One of the injuries was a deep gash to the lower back, just an inch from the spine, and another deep gash to the man's cheek.
In a shocking victim statement read out in court by prosecutors, the man said Davis seemed like a “pleasant young man” and there was nothing about his demeanor that made him nervous. The defendant said he had no idea why the defendant attacked him and that he believed his attacker intended to commit serious, even fatal, violence when he brought the knife into his home. Ta.
The man said he was nervous and afraid to be alone and said his home, which had blood stains on the floor after the attack, felt like he was living at a crime scene. Additionally, he said he felt “stupid” for letting the incident take place and that the attack had negatively affected his self-confidence.
Dexter Davies, now 18, of Brynhyfrid Road, Britton Ferry, previously appeared at the docks for sentencing on charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and possessing a knife. had pleaded guilty. He has no criminal record.
Megan Williams, for Mr Davies, reminded the court of the principles of sentencing young offenders and their focus on rehabilitation. She asked the court to take the “unusual step” of imposing a youth referral order in such cases so work could begin immediately to reduce the risk posed by the defendant.
Recorder Mark Powell KC said Davis had carried out a “frantic attack” on his victim, which could have had fatal consequences, and that although he had read reports about the defendant, he described a “horrific assault”. He said the motive remained a mystery. He told the teenager that it was only through “luck” that he was not charged with murder.
The judge heard that after bringing a knife into the man's home, Davies told a neighbor a “totally fabricated story” about sex with a woman that he believed had been pre-arranged, and that Davies then told the book's authors: He pointed out that he had lied. Pre-sentence report and psychiatric evaluation.
Recorder Powell said he was mindful of the guidelines for sentencing young people, but given the seriousness of the pre-planned attack, any sentencing rehabilitation must occur after a period of custody. . With a one-third reduction for his guilty plea, Davis was sentenced to three and a half years in a juvenile offender institution.
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