Victim left with knife embedded in his skull after 'frenzied' attack outside city nightclub

25-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER

- MARTIN NAYLOR

A MAN who repeatedly stabbed his victim in a "savage and frenzied attack" outside a Nottingham nightclub has been handed a 25-year prison term.

Such was the ferocity of the attack by Connor Page that the tip of the knife was left lodged in the skull of his 25-year-old victim and had to be surgically removed.

Page, 27, of Derby, was sentenced yesterday for attempted murder, following the stabbing outside I-Club in Wilford Street in the early hours of June 23.

A MAN who repeatedly stabbed his victim outside a city centre nightclub when 'seeking revenge' has been handed a 25-year prison term.

Connor Page was told by a judge that his repeated stabbing of Skye Severn was carried out "with vicious ferocity"

CCTV played during his trial in January showed the 27-year-old savagely use the blade several times on his victim, from Bilborough, after an argument outside the I-Club, in Wilford Street, in the early hours of June 23 last year.

Such was the ferocity of the attack, the tip of the knife was left lodged in the skull of the 25-year-old and it had to be removed through surgery.

Phone footage showed a large crowd witness the attack and one woman was heard screaming "he's stabbing him, he's stabbing him.

As well as the more serious charge, the defendant was sentenced for violence in Nottingham city centre in June 2022, and for assaulting his then-partner during a separate attack, Ring doorbell footage of which was played at this week's sentencing hearing.

Judge Mark Watson said: "Skye Severn grabbed you because you were hassling a female and he chose to involve himself.