A man stabbed his drinking pal in a 'drink-fuelled rage' after discovering that a penis had been drawn on his forehead.

Victim Wayne Jones was stabbed through the arm as he intervened in an argument between knifeman Noel Boyce, 48, and a third man with whom they were drinking and taking ketamine.

Prosecuting, Christopher Pembridge told Oxford Crown Court the group had been at the pub before returning to one of their houses at around 2pm on the afternoon of May 12 last year to continue their drinking session.

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“Mr Boyce is described as acting a little bit strangely by Mr Jones, not interacting in a normal way,” he added.

“All the parties were intoxicated at this point and, in drink, Mr Jones accepts he did draw a caricature of a penis on Mr Boyce’s head.”

The defendant ‘became angry and began shouting’ after discovering the lewd outline on his head, the prosecutor added.

The judge dealing with him on Thursday (March 16) said Boyce had ‘raged and screamed’ at the permanent maker prankster, who tried to pacify his friend.

Mr Jones left the house in an effort to cool the situation down but went back inside after hearing a commotion.

He saw Boyce holding a knife over the third man, in whose home they had been drinking.

The cartoonist intervened but found Boyce coming ‘straight for him’ and saying ‘I’m going to kill you. I want to kill you’.

During the struggle, Mr Jones was stabbed in the upper arm. The knife went straight through the limb. Pictures from the scene showed a significant amount of blood, the court heard.

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The defendant was said, later, to have no memory of the stabbing.

Boyce, of Broad Oak, Oxford, pleaded guilty at the first opportunity in the magistrates’ court to causing grievous bodily harm.

Jailing him for 16 months, Recorder John Bate-Williams told Boyce: “This was an essentially unprovoked attack on Mr Jones with a bladed article during which you expressed the desire to kill him.

“You stabbed him in his upper right arm fairly close to his heart in what I can only describe as a drug and drink-fuelled rage.”

In mitigation, Gareth James told the court that his client had been signed off with depression from his job as a hospital porter. He was self-medicating with alcohol and ‘spending too much time in public houses’.

The stabbing was ‘out of character’ for his client, who had never before troubled the court.

It was notable, he said, that when the police arrived both the victim and the defendant were outside the house.

The police officer, who asked the bloodied man who was responsible for the wound, ‘seems to have been as shocked as everybody else when he said ‘him’ and pointed to the man next to him’, Mr James said.

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