It was the latest in a series of violent crimes by Simon Michael Hughes including threatening to "bite out" or stab the throat of a soldier on duty at Imphal Barracks.
Matthew Moore-Taylor, prosecuting, said a woman sent Hughes’ latest victim a Facebook message offering to give him back his lost phone.
But when the victim drove a car as she directed to New Earswick shops, accompanied by his sister, the woman who sent the Facebook message turned out to be an accomplice of Hughes.
Hughes stabbed the victim in the hand and screamed at him "give me the keys, give me the keys", the court heard.
The victim's sister intervened and Hughes' accomplice said the knifeman would stab her as well. However the siblings managed to stop passing cars and the two criminals fled empty-handed.
“I have no hesitation in finding that you are a dangerous individual,” Judge Simon Hickey told Hughes, adding that his crimes were getting worse.
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“You are a menace to shopkeepers and you make their lives hell,” a judge told a serial York shoplifter as he released him from jail.
