A teenager stabbed a man in the back after he was heard saying "are you going to shank me then?"
Eighteen-year-old Joshua Price had been arguing with the victim before he chased him through Mansfield town centre and stabbed him.
Price, of St Andrews Street in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, punched his victim to the head, back and hand before taking out a knife and stabbing him once in the back.
The 42-year-old victim was left with a one-inch stab wound which required four stitches, during the incident which happened in Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, at around 6.33pm on 19 August last year.
After stabbing the man Price then ran off and passed the knife to a friend and urged them to dispose of it.
But in a panic the knife was thrown down a drain in Union Street in the town centre, and the weapon was later recovered by officers.
Price pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and threatening a person with a bladed article in public.
He was sentenced to two years and three months at a young offenders’ institution when he appeared at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday, August 18.
Detective Constable, Gareth Peace, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “We take reports of knife crime extremely seriously and we acted quickly to arrest Price in connection with this incident.
“Price is now finding out the hard way that we will not let people go around using knives on our streets and that anyone who does so faces real consequences that can have a big impact on their futures. I want to reassure people that we remain committed to driving out knife crime.
“The public should be assured that if knives are used we will try our utmost to take those people off our streets and to protect law-abiding people who live, work and visit Nottinghamshire.
“I am pleased that justice has been done and hope this sentencing will bring some degree of relief to the victim.”
