Road rage thug stabbed bus driver in the chest just because he’d BEEPED his horn at him

A ROAD rage thug who stabbed a driver in the chest for beeping his horn has been jailed.

Max Marchant launched the “appalling” attack on an innocent driver who tried to get the yob to move.

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Basildon Crown Court heard the victim was driving in Rochford, Essex, when he stopped behind Marchant’s VW Polo despite traffic being clear.

The bus driver, who was travelling home after a shift, honked his horn and then later incidentally pulled up next to him.

Then Marchant, 22, of Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, started abusing the victim and then knifed his car.

Shockingly he then leaned through the window and plunged the blade into his chest before speeding away.

Prosecutor Karl Volz said: “The defendant shouted aggressive words at the victim who did not hear him and shouted ‘What?’ back.

“His window was fully down and at this stage, Marchant got out of his car, walked round to the victim’s window and stabbed the car door.

“The defendant then leaned into the window and plunged a knife into the victim’s chest.”

Miraculously, the victim managed to drive himself home where his mother called an ambulance and he was airlifted to hospital with a collapsed lung.

He spent three days in hospital and medics described it as “fortunate” to have not been more serious.

A victim impact statement revealed he was “petrified” during the attack and added: “I didn’t expect to be stabbed over something so trivial and petty.

“It makes me question what people are capable of.”

In the wake of the August 2018 attack Marchant was arrested 10 days later and picked out of an identity parade by the victim after giving a no comment interview.

He admitted one count of wounding with intent and one count of possessing a knife at the plea hearing in September.

Sentencing him on Friday, Recorder Hansen said: “This was an appalling offence involving an unprovoked attack on an innocent victim who was petrified.

“As it turns out the injury was not as serious as it might have been but that was down to luck.”

He handed Marchant a six-year prison sentence and ordered him to pay the statutory charges.