Overview

• Liverpool Crown Court ordered Anketell to serve 11 years and three months behind bars with an additional four-year licence period and indefinite restraining orders
• Judge Simon Medland KC deemed Anketell “potentially very volatile and wholly unpredictable” and imposed an extended sentence as a dangerous offender
• The attack occurred on February 17 at a shared Airbnb on Wavertree Road in Edge Hill when 62-year-old Vincent Anderson stepped in to defuse a bathroom dispute
• Anderson suffered deep wounds to his back, neck, arms and head that required hospital treatment and has been left with flashbacks that disrupted his wedding plans
• Anketell, 37, holds nine previous convictions for 14 offences including assault occasioning actual bodily harm and a 2019 weapons-related suspended sentence in Italy