You can use a slice expression on a string to get the last three bytes.
s := "12121211122"
first3 := s[0:3]
last3 := s[len(s)-3:]
Or if you’re using unicode you can do something like:
s := []rune("世界世界世界")
first3 := string(s[0:3])
last3 := string(s[len(s)-3:])
Check Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go and Slice Tricks.