A man sentenced to jail time for stabbing an associate walked free yesterday, despite having been sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment for stabbing the man after arguing with him at a social gathering.
Abulkadir Mohammed Farah appeared for sentence on one count of injuring with intent to injure before Judge Geoff Rea in the Napier District Court yesterday. However he was released immediately due to time served and no release conditions were set.
Farah had been drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis at a Hastings address on the evening of September 6, 2016 when he entered into an argument in the property's backyard with an associate.
He picked up a full bottle of beer and struck the associate with it before he was told to leave the man alone by another associate.
Farah then proceeded to go into the kitchen and arm himself with a large kitchen knife, returning to the backyard to stab the man in the lower right back.