A schoolboy who became one of Britain's 'youngest people ever to receive an anti-social behaviour order ' tried to become a drugs gang boss - only to get stabbed 27 times.
Alfie Hodgin, 18, got caught with a whopping £2,000 of heroin and crack cocaine while 'slumped on the floor covered in blood' following the vicious attack.
The incident came after it was revealed the teenager stole drugs and a graft phone from a county lines ring - which he had shockingly been working for.
On Wednesday, Hodgin was jailed for his crimes, reports Liverpool Echo.
However, this is not the first time the now 18-year-old has been involved in the criminal justice system.
At an alarmingly young age - when he was only 10 - Hodgin was handed an ASBO at Wirral Magistrates' Court.
Back then, in December 2014, he was found to have been "terrorising the community".
The order was in place for two years and banned the primary school pupil from "causing harassment, alarm or distress to members the public".
It also meant that at any time staff asked him to leave a shop or business, he was required to do so.
Shockingly, his brother John, then aged 14, had also received an ASBO - just a month earlier.
It is believed that the two youths were "part of a gang involved in a series of incidents in the north end" of Birkenhead, a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside. T
he elder sibling was also said to have caused a "litany of trouble" and was "accused of being part of a gang that threw missiles at vehicles and hurled abuse at vulnerable people".
Following his first conviction, Hodgin gained a rap sheet featuring offences including theft, criminal damage, assault and breaching his ASBO. And in 2019, he was first jailed for possession of a bladed article in a public place.
This week, Liverpool Crown Court heard that Hodgin had been making some progress at the team thanks to guidance from Everton in the Community. However, by the time he had been released, the coronavirus pandemic struck, and the young teen struck, meaning the "opportunity no longer existed" with the charity.
Then, in February 2021, it was heard that he received further time behind bars after having been caught with peddling class A drugs, a phone and a "couple of weapons" in his prison cell.
Originally, the teen had been put to work by an organised crime group to pay off a debt, but instead he took the opportunity to steal the gang's graft phone and drugs - turning it into his own operation.
Inevitably, Organised Crime Group acted ruthlessly following this and a gang of four men attacked Hodgin with machetes in a street in Ellesmere Port town centre in the early evening of July 14 this year. The assailants approach the victim in a grey SUV before jumping out and attacking him.
Then, they left him lying in a pool of his own blood, suffering from 27 stab wounds.
Reportedly, around a dozen police cars responded to the incident, and a large portion of Worcester Road, Worcester Walk and King Street were taped off while an air ambulance landed in a nearby field.
Hodgin spent two weeks in hospital, such were the seriousness of his injuries. But that was far from the end of his problems.
Upon his arrest, police officers slapped the cuffs on him - because he had been found in possession of £1,220 of heroin and £1,100 of crack cocaine at the time of his assault, as well as £1,208 and the graft phone.
The 18-year-old admitted possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply and being concerned in the supply of heroin and crack cocaine and was locked up for two-and-a-half years.
John too was unable to escape the clutches of the underworld. He was handed two years and seven months in 2019 after a chase with a police helicopter in a stolen car following a burglary in Wallasey.
And defence counsel John Weate told the court yesterday morning the "older brother is presently serving a custodial sentence for matters which this defendant finds himself before the court today".
He added of Hodgin: "From a very young age, probably in his infancy, he has been subjected to living in a violent and criminal environment and a complete mistrust has developed within him of adults and people who may on the face of it be looking to help him.
"Everything has been disrupted by this life experience, which thankfully the vast majority of children don't have to experience. His education was completely and utterly disrupted through bad behaviour and through other issues which existed in his life.
"The glimmer of hope is a suggestion he wants to change. He seems determined to get a grip of his life and to do his level best in the future to make sure he doesn't find himself in this position again."
