Sword attacker jailed for nine years

A drug user who was captured on CCTV hacking a man to death with a samurai sword was today jailed for nine years.

Daniel Jethoo, 20, of Bullsmoor Way, Enfield, who had two previous convictions for possessing ecstasy and cocaine, was out for revenge after a group of men racially abused him in a pub in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, on 21 December last year. But instead he met Bradley Knight, 22, and Peter Matthias, 34, and attacked them.

Jethoo, then 19, slashed Mr Knight repeatedly. Mr Matthias survived despite injuries to his heart, lungs, liver and hand.

Jethoo, was found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. At St Albans Crown Court, Judge Findlay Baker QC passed a nine-year sentence for manslaughter with a six-year sentence for wounding.