A BARRY man, who stabbed his son after ‘long-standing tensions’ came to a head, was jailed for too long - according to the son he attacked.

At Cardiff Crown Court on Friday (June 11), 60-year-old Ivan Lincoln was sentenced to ten years and six months for the attack on 31-year-old Nicholas (Nicky).

During the incident on Jewel Street on December 22, Nicky was stabbed nine times – but this week he told the Barry & District News: "I pushed him so much. I'm partly to blame."

Witnesses told Cardiff Crown Court they heard Ivan Lincoln ‘screaming and shouting’ at his son before chasing him and stabbing him with a nine-inch blade.

One passer-by told police: "The boy was running away, pursued by the older man who had a knife.

"He was shouting: ‘You've been asking for this for years. I'm going to kill you’."

Defending Lincoln, Vincent Coughlin said: "There has been a long-standing tension between father and son which has been building for a number of years.

"Nicky has been, to put it mildly, wayward for some time. He has been off the rails for a number of years.

"Lincoln went to meet his son and took the knife. Things quickly degenerated but it is inexcusable."

Lincoln, of Burlington Street, admitted grievous bodily harm with intent. A charge of attempted murder was dropped.

Sentencing him, Mr Justice David Lloyd Jones said: "This was a vicious and sustained attack. There was a background of bad feeling between you and your son.

"Bearing a knife in the street is a threat to public safety. The courts have to deter such behaviour to protect the public."

But Nicky, who has since recovered from the attack, described the sentence as 'disgusting'.

"He didn't deserve it," he said.

"It should have been a shorter sentence. I can see that you shouldn't ever stab someone, but I pushed him so much. I'm partly to blame.

"Whenever I went down to his house it was like walking on egg shells - I kept going down there drunk and I pushed him too much."

"It's been difficult for my family," he added.

"I've got nieces and nephews in school and people are coming up to them and talking about their granddad. It's not nice for them."

Ivan Lincoln is set to appeal the sentence.