A British man was just sentenced to three years in prison following a brutal stabbing attack on a male sex partner that left him “physically and emotionally broken.”
The Manchester Evening News reports that 24-year-old Stephen Taylor met his victim at a party in June of last year. Taylor introduced himself as “Tyson” at the party. The victim’s name has not been made public to protect his privacy.
A friend told the victim that Taylor was straight. But that didn’t stop Taylor from messaging him after the party, claiming he left his phone charger behind. Taylor and the victim met up for another drink together, at which point Taylor grabbed the victim’s penis.
“Bloody hell Tyson, what you doing?” the victim asked.
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“Don’t you want a bit of fun?” Taylor replied.
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According to court documents, the pair initially laughed off the awkward moment, only for Taylor to make another pass at the victim. At that point, Taylor performed a sex act on the victim.
The two engaged in addition sexual acts in the victim’s bedroom. But when the victim declined to perform oral sex on Taylor, things took a turn for the worst.
Taylor flew into a rage, grabbed a knife from the victim’s kitchen, and began stabbing him repeatedly in the chest and neck whilst screaming homophobic slurs. Taylor also held on to the victim’s penis throughout the attack, squeezing it.
“Mr. Taylor was shouting, saying ‘I’m not f*cking gay’. Mr. Taylor was in a rage. He was calling him a ‘f*cking f*ggot’,” prosecutor Neil Bisarya told the court.
The victim begged for his life throughout the attack before managing to escape, covered in blood, and call the police. Officers arrested Taylor at the scene.
In all, the victim suffered cuts on his arms, stab wounds to his chest, a 5cm deep stab wound to his neck, cuts to his face, and a broken foot. In court, he also claimed to suffer from PTSD, anxiety, depression and insomnia as a result of the attack.
“What Stephen Taylor has done to me has both physically and emotionally broken me,” he said.
Defense attorneys argued that Taylor attacked the victim in self-defense after the victim broke a glass over his head. They also claimed the attack was not a homophobic one, since Taylor and the victim had consensual sex.
But the defense was unable to convince Judge Garrett Byrne, who told Taylor his attack was “at least in part motivated by some homophobia, given the remarks attributed to you by the victim, which I conclude you did in fact use.”
Byrne sentenced Taylor to three years in prison. As guards led him from the courtroom, he tore his name tag from his chest, shouting “You can f*cking have that mate!”
Steven Taylor will now spend the next three years behind bars for the attack. 250 days he spent in home curfew during the trial will count toward his sentence.
ShiningSex
self loathing can lead to this kind of disgusting behavior.
just love who you are. get over it. it’s just love.
Donston
Self-loathing, internalized phobias, gay resentments, queer insecurities, self-misandry- those things aren’t always so easy to overcome. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be as prevalent as they are. I also wouldn’t be surprised if drugs or mental health issues were at play here. While let’s not confuse sex with “love”.
blackhook
Yes, this!
fredk3
“Not gay!?” Geez … Stephen Taylor is sooo gay … and not in a cool way. He’s self-loathing. Pitiful.
Jaquelope
He grabbed the victim’s penis; a couple of reasons possible for that. He performs oral sex, and they have other sexual encounters, and everything seems fine. But the victim refuses to give him a blowjob, and he’s not gay, and he tries to kill him? No, not gay at all. Did the victim bottom for him in the other encounters. or was he the bottom? I can see being disappointed that the partner wasn’t versatile, and refused to perform orally after Taylor did, but that seems a little extreme. And only three years? Attempted murder should have a longer sentence than that. If he’s made someone’s b!*ch in prison, is he going to try to kill his Daddy if he won’t reciprocate? He could wind up very messed up or dead if he tries that.
Raphael
3 years for attempted murder?! With almost a year of time served?! What is happening to the world…
Mack
I don’t think they sentence people in the United Kingdom like they do in the US. But hey, the other day a guy was convicted of raping two teenage girls got probation IN NY STATE.
Kangol2
@Mack, the creep in NY State actually admitted to raping and sexually four teenage girls. He was given probation. Why? He’s a rich, White kid and the judge didn’t want to send him to prison. One of the victims has already warned that this monster will probably commit rape again. Such is our “justice” system.
Hank31
Since when is “home curfew” counted as imprisonment and deducted as time served?
Cam
Ask the Republican judges who are giving that same punishment to Trump supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol, threatened to kill sitting Congress people and attempted to overthrow the govt.
HenryCameron
This case is from the UK, but even in my very Southern and conservative state, the judge may give credit for time served under monitored house arrest.
Openminded
It’s all in the name of saving money. Instead of paying big bucks to incarcerate the accused until a court actually declares them guilty, gov’ts theorize that it saves money to allow the accused to have house arrest so it doesn’t cost the gov’t hardly anything. Sounds sensible until something bad goes wrong. Covid quarantining could have easily been a big factor in allowing the house arrest. I’ll agree, house arrest shouldn’t earn the same credits for time served as actual incarceration does. I’d like to know if the UK has equally as liberal policies on early release and probation. It’s very likely this criminal could be serving his time under house arrest after a very short amount of prison time.