Trio including brothers jailed for more than two years following stabbings on Hornbeam Close in March

Three men have been jailed following a fight involving two stabbings in a residential street.

Police received a flurry of 999 calls about the fight on Hornbeam Close in March, at about 1pm on March 18, 2023.

Lenny Evans, 33, and Kenneth Watson, 43, were facing up to each other with baseball bats and had started brawling when the latter’s brother, Jonathan Watson, 38, got out of a car and joined in.

When officers arrived, all three men had fled, but the younger brother was seen in his Audi at the end of the road and was arrested.

Police then received a call from the ambulance service reporting that a man who had been dropped off at a nearby filling station had been stabbed.

Evans had stab wounds to his face, hand and torso and was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

Kenneth Watson also received multiple stab wounds to his head during the brawl.

On Friday, at Cambridge Crown Court, Evans, of East Drive, March, and Kenneth Watson, of Hornbeam Close, March, were both jailed for two years and two months after being found guilty of affray at an earlier trial.

Jonathan Watson, of Ivy Road, Brockley, London, was also handed two years and two months after being found guilty of affray; however, he was handed an additional four months for dealing cannabis, taking his total sentence to two years and six months.

DC Tom Adams, who investigated, said: “This level of violence and brazen use of weapons is absolutely unacceptable.

“Residents of this street have unsurprisingly been left shocked and upset by the actions of the Watson brothers and Evans, so I am pleased they are all now behind bars.

“Tackling street-based violence is a force priority, and we will continue to do all we can to take as many offensive weapons off the streets of Cambridgeshire as we can.”

Anyone with information or concerns about someone who carries a knife can report via the dedicated weapons information webpage.