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A man was left permanently injured, after a drug deal went wrong and he was stuck in his car with a knife-wielding attacker.
During the "sustained and persistent" knife attack he suffered inside the vehicle, the man tried reversing his BMW down the street, but with the use of only one hand, he crashed into a parked van.
He then rammed the car into forward gear and accelerated down the road, but crashed through a fence and into a building at a heritage park. Fearing for his life, he tried to run, but felt faint from loss of blood.
The man's attacker, William Netane Popoia Johns, 30, has now been sentenced in the Nelson District Court to just over three years in prison on a single charge of aggravated robbery.
He initially faced further ch
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