Bognor man pleads guilty to Somerfield stabbing

A Bognor Regis man has pleaded guilty to stabbing a young woman as she shopped.

Samuel Reid-Wentworth (22) was charged with the attempted murder of Lucy Yates who was repeatedly stabbed in the Somerfield store in Anchor Springs, Littlehampton, on September 16 last year.

Miss Yates (20) needed specialist emergency surgery at a hospital in Southampton following the unprovoked and brutal attack, which shocked other shoppers.

Reid-Wentworth, of Longford Road, stood in the dock at Hove Crown Court yesterday (Tuesday, January 27) flanked by six prison guards and psychiatric nurses.

Pierce Power, defending, said that a full psychiatric report had been carried out while the defendant was on remand at Broadmoor.

He added that a second report would need to be carried out before Reid-Wentworth could be sentenced.

Addressing the defendant, Judge Anthony Scott-Gall said he had pleaded guilty to a 'very serious matter'.