Teenager, 17, slashed gay man in the stomach causing his intestines to spill out

A teenager has been jailed for more than 10 years after slashing a gay man’s stomach open during a homophobic attack.

Ibraima Touray-Drammeh, 17, knifed Nathan Hale in the street with a machete which left an 8in gash in his gut and caused his intestines to spill out.

Touray-Drammeh then knocked Nathan’s phone out of his hand and ran away after the attack so his bleeding victim was unable to call for help.

The teenager was jailed for ten years and eight months on Thursday after he was found guilty of wounding with intent at Northampton Crown Court.

Her Honour Judge Adrienne Lucking said: ‘This is what happens when you carry weapons in public and injure other people.

‘You walked through the town centre with a barely-concealed machete.

‘You slashed him in the chest, in broad daylight, in public.

‘You both ran from this badly injured man. He fell down bleeding, and saw his own intestines fall through his abdomen.

‘This offence is so serious it can only be met with an immediate custodial sentence and I must impose an extended sentence in order to protect the public.’

The court heard the teenager, from Northampton, attacked Nathan in St Katherine’s Gardens, in the town, last August after abusing him in the street.

It ended with Touray-Drammeh pulling a machete out his trousers and slashing Nathan in the gut.

Touray-Drammeh’s friend Perry Bentley, 23, was jailed for 20 months after he watched the attack but did nothing to help.

The court heard how Touray-Drammeh bought the machete just two days before the attack.

A video recovered from a phone showed the teenager joking in a group with Bentley about how he struggled to walk with the blade hidden in his trousers.

Nathan was saved by immediate help from the police before being rushed to hospital where he was put in a medically-induced coma.

During the trial, Nathan said: ‘When I first saw my scars in hospital I cried for over an hour at what these men had done to me.

‘I have frequent flashbacks. I have nightmares of a man in my room at night.

‘I have been left a shadow of my former self.

‘I used to be outgoing and confident but I find going out just makes me anxious. I don’t think I will ever be the same.’