A YOUTH who stabbed a girl with a kitchen knife was sentenced to a 12 months Detention and Training Order by a court.

But Andrew Chadfield, aged 17, will not now be released until he has served at least half of the one-year sentence.

Earlier it had been reported that because Chadfield had spent six months on remand in custody that this would mean he would be freed almost immediately.

But court officials yesterday made it clear that the amount of time Chadfield had already spent in custody would not reduce the length of the sentence he is now serving.

The court had been told earlier how Chadfield had been in a rage and attacked a girl who told his girlfriend that he had slept with her.

He dragged the girl by her hair, punched and kicked her and finally stabbed her in the back with a seven inch kitchen knife as she lay curled up on the floor.

Chadfield, of Bealey Drive, Bury, had appeared at Bolton Crown Court for sentence for unlawful wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.