A man who fatally stabbed another man after an altercation outside his ex-girlfriend’s flat has been jailed for 17 years.
John Robinson stabbed 30-year-old Mason Jones in the abdomen outside his on-off partner’s Burley in Wharfedale flat on 1 March. Jones later died in hospital.
Robinson, 30, was cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter and possession of a bladed article in a public place following a trial at Bradford Crown Court.
Passing sentence at the same court earlier, Judge Jonathan Carroll described the loss Jones’s loved ones had endured as “immeasurable”.
Jones and his friend, Will Clarke, were invited to the flat by Annabel Ramsey – described in court as Robinson’s “on-off” girlfriend, though she had ended the relationship the day before the incident – in the early hours.
Judge Carroll said everyone in the flat had been “drinking, taking drugs or both.”
After an argument broke out, Ramsey kicked Jones and Clarke out of the flat, but they later returned.
Another disagreement ensued and Ramsey called Robinson. She could be heard “shouting threats at [Jones] and others”, telling them Robinson would “deal with them”, the court heard.
