Incident: Armathwaite Hall Hotel, where a wedding reception descended into violence during an evening buffet reception A WEDDING guest at a posh Lake District hotel was repeatedly stabbed in the head by a man armed with a fork.
Carlisle Crown Court heard that hospital porter Edward Leighton, 61, launched the attack - which left his victim with puncture wounds, covered in blood and with severe hearing loss - because he wrongly believed his victim had attacked his wife. Leighton, of Mardale Road, Raffles, Carlisle, was jailed for ten months. The court heard that victim Alan Hodgson was at the wedding with his wife and two daughters on November 17, 2018.
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