Man jailed for threatening man with gun and vicious assault Crawley
25 year old Manuelito Andre was given a two year prison sentence at Lewes Crown Court
A man will go to jail for two years for threatening another man with a gun and then viciously assaulting him in Crawley.
Police were called to a report of a stabbing near The Grand Bay, Pelham Place on the 11th of August. The victim of the stabbing, Manuelito Andre, suffered serious arm injuries and was taken to hospital.
Andre told officers that he had approached a man about money owed to him, who then chased Andre and stabbed him. Yet following CCTV enquiries, officers found out that Andre had threatened the man before he was stabbed.
Andre approached a man in his 30s, threatened him with a firearm and subjected him to a sustained attack lasting several minutes.
While Andre was in hospital, he was arrested on the 14 August. He was then charged and remanded into custody.
He pleaded guilty at Lewes Crown Court on 12 September and was subsequently sentenced at Lewes on 25 October.
2\5 year old Andre, of no fixed address, was jailed for two years, and was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £187.
Following an investigation into Andre’s injuries, it became clear the victim did not possess a knife until they were able to grab it while being attacked, and it was deemed to be in self-defence.
CID Supervisor Oli Robinson said: “This was a complex investigation in which CCTV showed different events to what we were told.
“The CCTV evidence was key to Andre’s conviction. It showed how the victim was cornered into an area where he was able to grab an item to defend himself.
“Due to his behaviour, Andre is now behind bars and rightly serving his sentence.”