A SOUTHAMPTON father was stabbed by a teenager whom he confronted about noise coming from a late-night party.

Saleen Nazari, his wife and his child were unable to sleep when Liam Fearnley and his friends began partying in a neighbouring flat at a city tower block.

A frustrated Mr Nazari went to confront party-goers shortly before midnight, but was met with a barrage of insults and abuse.

Fearnley then attacked Mr Nazari before brandishing a kitchen knife, attempting to stab him.

During the resulting melee, Mr Nazari, a taxi driver, suffered a stab wound to his hand.

Fearnley was sentenced to more than a year in prison.

Southampton Crown Court heard that the incident took place in Albion Towers, St Mary’s.

Fearnley, 18 at the time, was drinking with friends at a flat, which belonged to his then-girlfriend.

Meanwhile, Mr Nazari and his family were downstairs trying to sleep.

Prosecuting, Thomas Acworth said Mr Nazari went upstairs around 11.30pm, to ask for the group to keep the noise down.

He said: “The noise was loud and was preventing him and his family from getting to sleep.

"When he (Mr Nazari) approached the flat, he received abuse and Fearnley began attacking him, first with his fists and then using a red handled kitchen knife, which was given to him by someone at the party.”

Mr Acworth said Fearnley began waving the knife around, attempting to stab his victim.

He said the pair both fell and began wrestling, while Fearnley’s friends delivered kicks to Mr Nazari’s side.

Mr Nazari received a knife wound to his hand as he attempted to wrestle the knife away from Fearnley.

The teenager and his friends left after seeing the blood coming from Mr Nazari’s hand.

Police arrived the next day and attempted to talk to Fearnley, who was described as “uncooperative”.

He also told police he had not been at Albion Towers the previous night, but Mr Acworth said CCTV showed this to be untrue.

Mr Acworth said Mr Nazari and his family wanted to move since the incident, on Boxing Day 2017, as they no longer “felt safe”.

He added that Fearnley was currently in prison after another incident in May 2018, where he threatened a man with a knife and sparked a three-hour stand-off with police at Albion Towers.

Mitigating, David Reid said Fearnley had begun drinking around the time of the incident and had shown remorse.

He added that Fearnley, 20, of Gilpin Close, Southampton, had pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding without intent at an early stage of the proceedings.

In sentencing Fearnley to 17 months in prison, recorder Robert Bright QC warned the consequences of the attack could have been significantly worse.

He said: “This was a very serious assault which resulted in you wounding this man, who did nothing but ask you to keep the noise down.

“It is perhaps only through good fortune he was not more seriously injured.”

Fearnley's latest sentence will run consecutively to his previous 30 month sentence, which he received in July last year.