A man and a woman have been sentenced to prison for a violent attack where they stabbed a man and callously asked if he was dead. Tommy McTighe and Gemma Vanstone enticed the victim out of his residence with the intention of harming him. Using a machete and a metal bar, they inflicted eight stab wounds on the victim before he managed to escape.
After the brutal assault, a taxi driver passing by discovered the injured man and immediately contacted emergency services. Witnesses later reported seeing McTighe and Vanstone driving by in a Mercedes, with one of them shouting, “Is he dead yet?”
Following a trial in September, McTighe, 34, and Vanstone, 35, residents of Plymouth, Devon, were found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. McTighe denied possessing an offensive weapon in public but admitted to having crack cocaine, for which he was also convicted.
The culprits were sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on November 21, with McTighe receiving a nine-year prison term and Vanstone being sentenced to five-and-a-half years behind bars.