A pair of young thugs took part in a racially motivated attack which left a man with blood pouring from a deep knife wound to his arm.

The 16 and 15-year-old boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, carried out the sickening attack on an Asian couple at their own home.

Teesside Crown Court heard how it was the 15-year-old who shouted - ‘black b******’ at a woman before threatening to ‘cut everybody up’.

When the woman’s partner came out of their Thornaby home to confront the pair he was slashed three times across the arm leaving him needing hospital treatment.

Uzma Khan, prosecuting, said the pair turned up at the couple’s home on Thornaby Road, in the middle of the afternoon on October 3.

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She said following the slashing the victim ‘felt dizzy and sick’ and his wife thought he was going to die as a result of his injuries.

CCTV footage of the incident showed the younger teenager was the one who carried out the knife attack while his co-accused was seen to step back when the man came out of his home.

The pair both pleaded guilty causing grievous bodily harm with intent following the violence last month and they both pleaded to an affray from the same incident.

Paul Green, representing the 15-year-old, said his client clearly understood the seriousness of the offence and accepts that he has previous convictions for weapons and violence offences.

He added: “He clearly understands he has to address his behaviour and he is quite clear about that.”

Shaun Dryden, representing the 16-year-old, said that by the time the victim was struck with the knife his client was behind a parked car but accepted he was present at the scene when the attack happened.

Judge Howard Crowson said: “You both went to the victims’ home, you both had gloves on and one of you had a large knife in your hand – the other didn’t have a weapon of any kind but you wore gloves.

“The husband came to the door and as he challenged you, you pulled that knife out of its sheath and struck him three times and you cut his arm quite badly before you both ran away.”

The judge sentenced the 15-year-old to two years and four months in a young offenders’ institute and ordered that the 16-year-old would be made subject of a two-year youth referral order and issued him with a 16-week overnight curfew.

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