A teenager who stabbed another train passenger in the neck for refusing to give him a cigarette has been jailed for three years and four months.

17-year-old, Jack Hutchinson, of North Street, Tunbridge Wells has been sentenced following the vicious attack on January 17.

Judge Charles Macdonald QC who was shown CCTV footage of the incident, lifted an order which had previously banned the identification of Hutchinson because of his age.

The court heard that Hutchinson pulled out a knife on Joshua Logsdon who boarded a train at Sevenoaks and was heading to High Brooms just before midnight.

Prosecutor, Andrew Forsyth, said the victim sat in a first class section and started to roll a cigarette when the teenager, who had been drinking and taking cannabis, boarded with others in Tonbridge.

One of the group asked Mr Logsdon for a “roll-up”, which he agreed to.

Hutchinson rudely asked for one twice, but the passenger told him to share his mate’s, to which he pulled out a pocket knife and told the victim: "Come on then."

When Hutchinson, who was 16-years-old at the time of the incident, pulled out the knife, Joshua Logsdon defiantly told him: “So are you going to stab me big man? Go on then, do it.”

Hutchinson then callously knifed the victim in the neck.

Mr Logsdon challenged him and then felt blood on his face but did not realise that he had been stabbed during the fight.

Hutchinson fled along the carriage and the officer detained him on the platform.

Mr Logsdon was taken to London’s King’s College Hospital for a 2cm wound and was kept in overnight.

“I thought that night I was going to die. I think about it every time I go to sleep” - Joshua Logsdon

His victim statement said: “I thought that night I was going to die. I think about it every time I go to sleep.”

The teenager admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Judge Charles Macdonald QC said: “This was a very serious offence. More harm was intended than was actually inflicted. The outcome could have been much worse and life threatening.”

Lawyer James Martin, defending, said Hutchinson had a difficult upbringing and his mother died last year, which led to a decline in his behaviour.