Thug ambushed and stabbed man, 62, outside supermarket over false claim he'd raped his mum

A young thug has been jailed for ambushing and then stabbing a 62-year-old man falsely accused of raping his mother. Kaden Worthington, 20, was on bail for another knife crime at the time he launched the attack, which left his victim in hospital for a month with broken ribs.

Now Worthington, an apprentice plumber from Worsley, has been handed a long period of detention after he admitted the attack. The defendant carried out an 'ambush-style attack' outside Aldi at Salford shopping precinct on January 10 this year, prosecutor Robert Elias told Manchester Crown Court on Tuesday afternoon.

At the time, witnesses reported the victim had been attacked for his shopping, but the police investigation which brought Worthington down uncovered the defendant had acted in a rage over what turned out to be a false accusation that his mother had been raped by the man.

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The victim suffered fractured ribs and a damaged liver in the stabbing which put him in intensive care for three days. He was only discharged a month after the attack. Mr Elias told the court Worthington had acted because he had been told by his mother the man had raped her, although there was 'no evidence to support that'.

His victim had driven to Aldi to do his shopping but as he returned to his car he was attacked by Worthington, who was with his mother and another son, outside the supermarket, the court was told. CCTV captured the trio outside looking 'as if they were waiting for something', said Mr Elias, who added the Crown 'does not suggest the others knew what Kaden was about to do'.

The defendant then launched a 'very serious attack on the older man', first grabbing