A TEEN who stabbed another man so hard in the buttocks with a zombie knife the weapon had to be surgically removed has been jailed for 11 years and eight months.

As he was led from the dock fresh-faced Aaron Toward-Parker, 19, wearing a Nike top and jacket, made a heart gesture with his hands towards his family sat in the public gallery.

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In a victim personal statement read to the court, Toward-Parker’s 21-year-old victim said the stabbing had left him in excruciating pain.

The hurt was such that the self-employed labourer spent weeks off work and struggled to cuddle his young daughter: “Every aspect of my life has somehow been affected by what happened and some things will never be the same again.

“I missed out on parts of my daughter’s life that I can’t ever get back and my relationship with my partner suffered too.

“So, not only my life has been affected but my family’s too.”

On the night of January 20, Toward-Parker set out for Horsham Road, Park South, with pal Jack Parfitt.

Then 17-years-old, Parfitt was upset because he thought a colleague of his pregnant girlfriend had been flirting with her and arranged to meet up with him at the park.

As the supposed love rival was waiting at about 9pm he saw two masked men arrive on bikes, one brandishing a gun.

Parfitt opened fire, hitting the victim in the face and then in his torso.

The younger man then told Toward-Parker to “back out the shank’ – an instruction to get out his knife. Parfitt pistol-whipped the shooting victim, leaving him with a cut to his head.

Knifeman Toward-Parker waved the large weapon before bringing the hilt down on the head of the second victim, after he asked what he was doing.

Toward-Parker told his victim “Don’t think I won’t bore you out with the knife”, before plunging it into his buttocks.

At the trial he had denied using those words, claiming he had lost his grip on the weapon as they scuffled and it accidentally penetrated his victim.

A jury found Toward-Parker, formerly of Bath Road, Old Town, guilty of a charge of wounding with intent.

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