The thugs who stabbed a man multiple times in a racist attack near the A12 have been jailed.

The 32-year-old victim sustained a punctured lung after he was brutally stabbed by two brothers - Ronnie and Robert Hansen.

After the attack, the victim was left alone, bleeding in a deserted pathway before managing to drag himself towards the A12 to alert passers-by.

The incident happened last year, (June 19, 2018) but the two men have now been jailed.

The brothers were part of a group, which the victim met with, and as they walked down the road Ronnie, 22,  greeted one of them by a racial term.

This led to the victim confronting him and a verbal altercation occurred.

The situation calmed down and the group walked to an underpass running between Follett Street and the A12, in Barking, where they sat chatting and drinking.

While there, shortly after 2.30am, the victim was attacked, suffering five stab wounds to his back, thigh and chest.

Robert Hansen, of Chilcott Close, Tower Hamlets was sentenced to 12 years in prison

He managed to hail down a taxi and a moped after dragging himself away from the scene..

They called the emergency services who rushed him to hospital where he remained for two weeks suffering complications from a punctured lung.

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police's Central East Command Unit began an investigation and Ronnie was arrested on July 19.

Older brother Robert, 29, was arrested on October 17, 2018.

The pair were remanded in custody and later charged.

Ronnie, of Lawes Way, Barking, was found guilty of attempted murder following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court, and his brother Robert, of Chilcott Close, Tower Hamlets, was found guilty of section 18 grievous bodily harm in the same trial.

Ronnie Hansen, of Lawes Way, Barking, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for attempted murder

Ronnie was jailed for 16 years behind bars and Robert to 12 years this week (Friday, April 5).

Detective constable Simon Maude said: "This was an unprovoked and racially motivated attack and one which the victim is fortunate to have survived

"There is no place on our streets for this kind of senseless violence and we will do all we can to prosecute those who commit these crimes.

"This attack has had a significant emotional and physical impact on the victim who has had to move to another area and we hope this sentencing will bring him some kind of closure."




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