Attacker warned: "If you go to a children's attraction armed with a knife you'll go to jail"
“I don’t want him to think this is a get out of jail free card”
A man who took a knife to a popular children’s attraction in Sheffield has been told he faces jail.
Kia Gascoigne, aged 24, took the weapon to Heeley City Farm on June 20, 2025.
At Sheffield Crown Court this week he pleaded guilty to an offence of wounding with intent over an assault at the family attraction.
Gascoigne, of Gleadless Road, Heeley, Sheffield, also admitted an offence of possessing a folding pocket knife in a public place.
South Yorkshire Police confirmed a 30-year-old male was stabbed, and received hospital treatment for his injuries, in an incident at Heeley City Farm on June 20, 2025.
Gascoigne was due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday (August 7, 2026), but a pre-sentence report could not be prepared on his behalf in time for the hearing after he was “aggressive and rude” to probation staff and stormed out of his appointment.
Judge Rachael Harrison told Gascoigne that given the seriousness of the charges admitted, and the likelihood of a prison sentence, he would be given one more chance to work with probation staff in the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
“The reason I’m prepared to give him another chance is because of his lack of previous convictions. He’s very lucky the probation service his prepared to give him another appointment,” Judge Harrison told Gascoigne’s barrister, Paige Yellott.
She added, however: “If you choose to go to a children’s attraction armed with a knife you go to prison, so I don’t want him to think this is a get out of jail free card.”
Judge Harrison adjourned Gascoigne’s case until October, and told him: “You came very close to giving away a chance for someone to try and help you. If you don’t go to the appointment that’s been offered...if you are rude and aggressive, you will be sentenced without a report.
“Do not think that because I’m giving you a chance you won’t be going to prison, because, in my view, prison it is.”
Gascoigne was released on bail.