Grandad jailed after stabbing stranger in neck with pocket knife in pub attack
A 61-year-old grandfather has shocked onlookers by stabbing a stranger in the neck using a pocket knife, inside a busy pub. Ian Magee began his unprovoked attack as the victim attempted to enjoy a pint at the Standing Order Wetherspoons in Derby city center on April 6, 2023.
He approached Nicholas Watkins, who was seated on a bar stool, and said: "Give me some money or I will stab you". Scary CCTV footage reveals the granddad wearing a flat cap and plunging his blade into the neck of Mr Watkins to the horror of other drinkers.
Luckily the 48-year-old man survived the attack, having been given life-saving treatment by staff and other customers. Magee - who has eleven grandchildren - had drank "six or seven" pints of cider, and was charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Despite denying the charge he was convicted at Derby Crown Court and the jury took less than two hours to agree he was guilty in November last year. Yesterday, Magee, of Alvaston, Derbys, was put in prison for eight years, and there is an extended four-year license period at Leicester Crown Court.
Video grab of Ian Magee stabbing a man in the neck with a pocket knife (Derbyshire Police / SWNS)In a victim impact statement, Mr Watkins spoke of being depressed and suffering repeated nightmares regarding being killed since the stabbing. He said: “This incident has caused me to feel depressed. I don't really go anywhere anymore. I don't go to town or pubs. I don't see the people I used to see anymore.
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“Since I was stabbed, I have lost feeling in the jaw area and neck on the left side which is where I was stabbed – and I can't feel my bottom lip or my chin. I have nightmares all the time and I can't sleep at night. I wake up every 5 or 10 minutes. I have been seen to be shaking in my sleep. I dream about being stabbed, I feel a pain in my neck and then I feel like I'm on the floor and then I'm dying and then I am being shook.
“I don't understand it or why it has happened to me. It has changed my life.” Temporary Detective Constable Cathryn Mansfield, of Derbyshire Police, said: “This was an utterly appalling attack in the middle of the afternoon in a crowded city centre pub. For reasons that only Ian Magee knows he took a knife out his pocket and delivered a potentially fatal stab wound. There was no aggression from his victim and certainly nothing that could have warranted the violence used by Magee.
“As was heard from the victim in court the impact on him has been devastating and continues to this day. I hope that today’s sentencing brings this most horrendous chapter to a close and allows him to begin to come to terms with incident and move on from this ordeal. I would also like to thank the staff, customers, and first responders whose actions that day I have no doubt saved this man’s life.”
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