A 21-YEAR-old university sports science student has today (June 8) been jailed for four years after he stabbed another student when they fell out.

Alessandro Gilbert, who lived in student accommodation in Ffriddoedd Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, plunged a steak knife into third-year zoology student Jamie Griffiths’s abdomen, Caernarfon Crown Court heard.

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Gilbert admitted wounding with intent in March.

He received an extra month in custody for common assault on student Sally Murray.

Sentencing him, Judge Timothy Petts told Gilbert: ”In February, Sally Murray challenged you about what she regarded as your sexually inappropriate behaviour towards women. 

"Whether what you were doing was right or wrong isn’t the issue in this court.”

But the defendant had reacted by assaulting her in a “very scary” incident for her.

Judge Petts said :”A more serious offence was to follow.

"You and your friend Jamie Griffiths fell out after he took exception to the sexual nature of messages you had sent to some of his female friends.

“There was an exchange of messages between you.

"After he said your friendship was over, you said you considered him your enemy and twice said you would ‘chef him up’, meaning knife him.”

Gilbert went to his flat with a steak knife, held it to his neck, and stabbed him to the abdomen.

The victim thought he was dying. The attack curtailed Mr Griffiths’s university studies.

Prosecutor Sion ap Mihangel said Mr Griffiths had “feared the worst” and had received two litres of blood.

But a consultant at a major trauma centre at Stoke on Trent expected him to make a full physical recovery.

“From the sound of things you were only a couple of millimetres away from facing a murder charge,” the judge told Gilbert.

Defence barrister Simon Rogers said Gilbert would serve a prison term instead of embarking on a university degree.

The stabbing was an overreaction to a falling out between one-time friends and the defendant’s remorse was immediate.

There had been “a build-up of pressure” in Gilbert and he acted out of character.