Chinese cook gets 12 years

A Chinese cook who "sold out" his best friend and attempted to murder him in February last year was jailed yesterday for 12 years…

A Chinese cook who "sold out" his best friend and attempted to murder him in February last year was jailed yesterday for 12 years. In Belfast Crown Court, Lord Justice McCollum also told Kwong Fatt Loke (32) that he would be deported after serving his sentence.

Loke is one of three Chinese who slashed Mr Sia Keung Cheung with 2ft butchers' knives. The other attackers are still at large.

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