Peter Rees was given an extended 12-year sentence as a dangerous offender (Image: South Wales Police)

A man plunged a kitchen knife into the chest of an 81-year-old man in a seeming revenge attack after wrongly coming to believe his victim was dating his partner, a court has heard. Peter Rees had gone to live with his girlfriend and her pensioner friend after being evicted from his housing association flat when he pulled a knife on a maintenance man who was fixing his dripping tap and threatened to cut off his testicles.

A judge at Swansea Crown Court described the facts of the case as "disturbing to say the least".

He then told Rees that the only difference between the offence he committed - wounding with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm - and murder was "luck". Don’t miss a

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