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Man who stabbed neighbour in the head jailed

Charlotte Benton
BBC News, West Midlands
West Midlands Police A mugshot of a man with short dark hair, a thin moustache and a short beard. He is staring into the camera.West Midlands Police
Sadiq Sulemani, 20, fled the scene after he stabbed a man at an address in Lower Holyhead Road, Coventry, on 20 February last year

A man has been jailed for 16 years after stabbing a neighbour in the head.

Sadiq Sulemani, 20, attacked a man at an address in Lower Holyhead Road, Coventry, just before 05:50 BST on 20 February last year.

The man sustained significant head and facial injuries after the 20-year-old left the knife embedded and fled the scene, West Midlands Police said.

Sulemani was found guilty of attempted murder following a trial and was jailed at Warwick Crown Court on Friday.

The force added that the 20-year-old, of Lower Holyhead Road, had handed himself into the police a short time after he fled the scene.

PC Carly Philp said it was a "horrific attack" and there was "no justification for such extreme violence".

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