A shop worker who stabbed a young woman in the back with a scissor blade, after an argument in the store, was jailed for nine years.
Zahoor Zarin (23) was found guilty by a Leicester Crown Court jury of intentionally wounding the victim, who is in her 20's, on October 14 last year.
The attack happened in the One Stop Shop, in Leicester, where Zahoor then worked, said Gary Short, prosecuting.
Zarin denied the charge claiming he followed the slightly-built woman towards the door, carrying half a pair of broken scissors and lunged in her direction, not intending to make contact, but to scare her off.
The woman suffered a severe wound to her back, which needed hospital treatment, and has left her with ongoing difficulties.
Zarin pleaded guilty to possessing a bladed article on the same day and admitted the offence put him in breach of an 18 month suspended jail sentence, imposed in 2015 for a drugs offence.
Judge Ebraham Mooncey imposed an eight year sentence for the wounding and activated 12 months of the suspended sentence to run consecutively. He told the defendant: "The complainant can't walk properly and has trouble climbing the stairs. Your view was she was an irritant; she wanted a refund.
"But rather than giving her money back, or even calling the police if she was being a nuisance, you caused the injury in order to teach her a lesson."
