In a case of unprovoked violence, 18-year-old Thomas Waeling has been handed a 16-year sentence for the attempted murder of a woman in Hastings. The incident, which occurred last year, has left the community in shock.
The attack unfolded on the evening of May 15 in a car park near the Summerfields Leisure Centre on Bohemia Road. Waeling, who had earlier taken a knife from a friend’s kitchen, confronted the victim, a local woman unknown to him. In a brutal assault, he stabbed her multiple times, including a life-threatening wound through the chest.
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