A man who carried out an unprovoked stabbing in Stamford in December 2025 has been jailed for five years, police have said

Lincolnshire Police said that Cambridge Crown Court heard how Joshua Munton, 24, of of Ironmonger Street, Stamford, Lincolnshire, was refused entry to a local bar in Stamford in December 2025.

Police said he took a dislike to the victim, who was speaking to door staff at the time. Munton followed the victim to Red Lion Square, where he instigated a confrontation and produced a knife, stabbing the victim twice in the abdomen.

The victim required immediate medical treatment and underwent surgery after being taken to hospital, police said. At the time of the incident, police said the victim, who was aged in his twenties, had received three stab wounds.

Cambridgeshire Police said Munton – and two other men – were also convicted of drug offences.

A Cambridgeshire Police spokesperson said Munton, Harvey Webb, 21, and Miles Starbuck, 19, were in a Vauxhall Corsa that crashed on the slip road of the A1 southbound at Stibbington, near Peterborough, at just before 6pm on 27 June 2024.

Police received two separate iPhone crash activations and arrived to find Munton on the ground by the car with significant cuts to his face and a suspected broken hip and Webb, the driver, by the car.

Police said that officers searched the area and found Starbuck walking out of the nearby woods, topless and covered in blood.

Thanks to a witness, officers searched near a bus stop close to the crash site and found a Louis Vuitton bag perched up against a tree.

Police said that inside was £10,730 in cash, a balaclava, three sets of keys and a bank card not in any of the men’s names.

Financial checks revealed Munton had £30,000 in three different bank accounts that were not wages and couldn’t be accounted for.

Starbuck had more than £45,000 in his bank, accumulated over a year, which was not wages and Webb had nearly £20,000 in his account of the same nature.

All three men were arrested, and examination of their phones revealed evidence of drug dealing. Starbuck was also found with two bags of cocaine which had his DNA on them, a Rolex watch and more than £5,000 in cash.

The Louis Vuitton bag was found to have DNA from both Webb and Munton on it.

Webb, of Bramble Grove, Stamford, Lincolnshire, admitted charges including concealing criminal property, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, ketamine, possessing criminal property and causing serious injury by careless driving.

Starbuck, of Cloven Ends, Langtoft, near Peterborough, admitted concealing criminal property, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, ketamine and possessing criminal property.

Munton pleaded guilty to possessing and concealing criminal property, being concerned in the supply of cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis, diazepam, and ketamine, grievous bodily harm and possession of a knife.

Starbuck was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institute, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work, and Webb was given two years in prison, suspended for two years, but must complete 100 hours of unpaid work and a 20-day rehabilitation activity requirement. He was also banned from driving for a year.