Man jailed for repeatedly stabbing a man in Bournemouth

A Bournemouth man who stabbed a man nine times and injured a woman has been jailed.

At around 7pm on Monday 24 February 2025, officers responded to reports of a stabbing in Richmond Hill.

It was reported that a man had assaulted a woman in her 30s, spitting in her face before punching her, causing her to fall to the ground.

The woman’s partner went to intervene and the attacker stabbed him repeatedly in the torso.

Officers attended and located 22-year-old Maksims Pilko near the scene, with a silver flick knife nearby.

The male victim, in his 30s, was taken to hospital where he received treatment for the stab wounds.

Pilko, a Latvian national who gave his self-defined ethnicity as “any other white background”, also sustained a stab wound to his thigh during the altercation.

The defendant was subsequently charged and entered guilty pleas to inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent, possession of a knife and assault by beating. He was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday 8 January 2026 to eight years and one month in prison, with an extended licence period of a further four years.