Grieving father Samson Price is found guilty of trying to kill man with machete trends now

Grieving father Samson Price is found guilty of trying to kill man with machete trends now
Grieving father Samson Price is found guilty of trying to kill man with machete trends now

Grieving father Samson Price is found guilty of trying to kill man with machete trends now

Grieving father is found guilty of trying to kill man with machete after blaming him for the death of his son who was found dead in a pond after taking drugs while camping with friends

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A grieving father who launched an 'eye for an eye' machete attack on the teenager he blamed for his son's death was today found guilty of attempted murder.

Samson Price, 48, stalked Patrick Brown via a tracker placed on his car and then slashed him with the 16-inch machete as he left a gym in Northwich, Cheshire in September last year.

Mr Brown, from Winsford, Cheshire escaped bleeding to death 'by millimetres' as the machete just missed a vital artery but was left with life changing injuries.

Price showed no emotion as the jury found him guilty of attempted murder at Chester crown court yesterday.

Judge Michael Leeming adjourned sentence until March 24 but warned Price that it would be 'very significant indeed'. 

Samson Price, 48, pictured today in a police mugshot after being found guilty to trying to murder Patrick Brown

Samson Price, 48, pictured today in a police mugshot after being found guilty to trying to murder Patrick Brown

He said that guidelines for attempted murder where the victim might need life long care or had a long term effect on the ability to carry out day to day activities ranged from between 25 to 30 years.

The jury had heard that Price blamed Mr Brown for the death of his son Samson Junior who drowned in a pond near the family home in Wigan, Greater Manchester in October 2020.

Brown and two other teenagers were arrested on suspicion of murder after Mr Price had found his son's body floating in the pond, known locally as Westwood Flash.

But a five month police investigation concluded that the death was accidental after evidence that the teenagers had

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