Alan Goddard stabbed a father-of-three in the abdomen A teenager who plunged a knife into the abdomen of a father of three has been jailed for more than six years. Alan Goddard, 19, also hit the victim repeatedly on the head and body with a wooden post in the family’s home, said Matthew Collins, prosecuting. As the victim, blood gushing from the wound, desperately sought help from a neighbour, Goddard fled. The young children were left alone in the house and their mother had to negotiate with armed police to take them away, said Mr Collins. The father, who needed surgery and a week in hospital, said in a personal statement he and his family had had to move away from their home area because of the way Goddard had behaved and his “lack of consideration for their (the children’s) welfare and safety”.