THUG HEADBUTTED MUM AND STABBED DAD IN THEIR HOME

Parents left 'broken' by savage attack during row with girlfriend

- By ADAM EVERETT

A DAD was left so scared of his own son that he slept with a kitchen knife under his pillow before being stabbed 12 times.

Jack Tyler repeatedly knifed his father in the chest, torso and legs at the family home on Cobham Road in Moreton, Wirral, leaving him critically injured and requiring emergency surgery.

His mum also suffered black eyes and “unbearable hurt”, having been headbutted during the “truly shocking” melee. The incident erupted after his parents intervened during a row between him and his girlfriend in the early hours.

Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday that Tyler’s relationship with his family had “broken down” prior to the events of December 7 last year due to his “deteriorating mental health”, which was “exacerbated by his persistent use of cannabis and cocaine”. Previous episodes of violence had meanwhile left his dad Joseph Tyler “fearing for his safety” and “fearing that his son would kill him” to such an extent that the 65-year-old had “taken to sleeping with a kitchen knife under his pillow.