A TWENTY-year-old man has been jailed for four and a half years for stabbing a Bournemouth man twice in an unprovoked attack.

Scott Tinpeloo, of Dartford in Kent, carried out a vicious assault on his 22-year-old victim and left him with two stab wounds.

He was handed a four-and-a-half-year sentence at Bourne-mouth Crown Court yesterday and was also told he will have to serve an additional four years on licence once released.

He had pleaded guilty at Bournemouth Crown Court on Thursday, September 25, to causing grievous bodily harm with intent.

The court heard the victim was walking home when he was attacked by Tinpeloo in West Hill Road in the town at around 11.30am on Friday, June 13.

The pair were not known to each other.

Tinpeloo got out of the car with a large kitchen knife in his hands, grabbed the victim from behind and stabbed him twice in the back before fleeing the scene in the car.

The victim of the attack sustained a stab wound in the middle of his back, in line with his spine, and a second wound in his lower back above his right hip.

Tinpeloo was arrested on Friday, July 18.

Detective Constable Leo Glendon, of Bournemouth CID, said: “This was a vicious and unprovoked attack in broad daylight on an innocent man.

“Dorset Police will not tolerate knife crime in the county and the sentence handed out today is appropriate for the seriousness of the offence.”