A PROLIFIC and violent Rossendale crook has been jailed for three years and three months after knifing a man in Stacksteads.

Convicted armed robber and drug addict Philip Andrew Lord, 49, of Mark Street, Stacksteads, had earlier pleaded guilty to wounding Jordan Walker, with intent to case him grievous bodily harm and possessing a bladed article near his home on July 15.

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He was sentenced last Friday, at Burnley Crown Court, where he was jailed by Judge Beverley Lunt.

Lord has a criminal record going back decades. Lord has previously served a nine-year prison term for trying to hold up a building society and snatching a pensioner's bag in Rawtenstall towncentre while out of prison on licence.

He was locked up for four years for the attack on the 72-year-old woman and he also has other offences of robbery on his record.

In May last year, Lord, then living in Waterfoot, was sent to custody, this time for 10 months, after he converted an upstairs bedroom into a £12,000 commercial cannabis farm and planned to sell drugs.

The crown court had then been told how Lord had 31 large plants growing and had blacked out the windows and by-passed the electricity meter.

Police had found the operation when they raided his then home, on Taylor Avenue.