Mark Francis Roberts was on the run for seven years
A knifeman who was once one of the UK's most wanted men has been jailed after stabbing a man in the chest in a botched robbery.
Prosecutor Charlotte Atherton said Mr Alkshaib was pulling into the driveway of his gated community home at around 1.30am on September 30 when Roberts and another man, both wearing black hoodies, emerged from behind his sister's car and ran towards him. It was then Roberts, whose last known address was Freehold Street, Fairfield, noticed the expensive watch on Mr Alkshaib's wrist and attempted to steal it, but was pushed out of the car by his victim.
Ms Atherton said: "He became out of breath and suffered large blood loss, such that he feared for his own life." Roberts was arrested in Estepona, Malaga, on May 10 this year following an intelligence-led operation involving the National Crime Agency, Guardia Civil and Merseyside Police. "As serious as Mark Roberts' offending was in 2016, the fact that it was an isolated violent offence and has not been repeated, the fact that he was very young at the time, the fact that he has changed in terms of his family situation... for all these reasons, the court should be slow to come to the conclusion that he is dangerous."
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