A UNIVERSITY student has been jailed after stabbing a man in Huddersfield.

Leeds Metropolitan University student Luke Simpson stabbed Nathan Trew seven times in the back during a confrontation in a shop. He has been jailed for four years.

And his younger brother Kion, who also took part in the attack, has also been sentenced.

The attack, which happened in a menswear store in the town centre, left the victim Mr Trew with six two-centimetre puncture wounds in his back and a seventh wound under his left arm which led to a collapsed lung.

Bradford Crown Court yesterday that the violence followed a long-running feud between the victim and the family of 24-year-old Simpson who believed Mr Trew was a trouble-causer and a bully.

Lawyer Barry Grennan, for Simpson, said there had been considerable provocation over a number of years, not just days, and that the bullying largely related to his client's teenage brother Kion.

Prosecutor Claire Larton played CCTV footage from inside the shop which showed the confrontation in March last year.

Calderdale College student Kion Simpson, who only 16 at the time but now 18, was seen waving around a coat-hanger and trying to assault Mr Trew before his older brother attacked the complainant as he tried to scramble away.

Luke Simpson, who had been a promising young footballer with Huddersfield Town’s Academy, was said by his lawyer to have used a very short bladed pen-knife from a key-ring to stab Mr Trew.

Miss Larton told Judge John Potter that Mr Trew knew he was being stabbed as he could feel his back being punctured by something sharp and feeling the warm blood running down.

As Mr Trew tried to get out of the shop he fell to the floor and was kicked by Kion Simpson.

The complainant fled the scene and after a taxi driver refused to take him away he collapsed in a nearby pub where he was assisted by off-duty paramedics.