Teenage boy jailed for stabbing uncle in chest

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A teenage boy was jailed for three years for stabbing his uncle in the chest at the Central Criminal Court.

The stabbing happened because he did not want his uncle to buy heroin for his father. The judge described the attack as one-sided and said the teenager followed his uncle afterwards intending to finish the assault.