Gangland shooting victim admits attacking girlfriend in drunken Hogmanay row

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The victim of a gangland shooting has admitted attacking his girlfriend during a drunken Hogmanay row. Marc McDermott survived being shot in the back and backside while an innocent bystander was injured and her dog was killed.

A court heard that cowardly McDermott subjected his then partner, Cheryl Fraser, to domestic abuse around the time of the shooting.

She told a jury that "traumatic" events had left them "stressed" and people were "fearing for their lives".McDermott, 30, was on trial accused of breaking mum of four Fraser's ankle, smashing her cheekbone and striking her on the head with a knife handle.

But, after she claimed to be suffering "severe memory loss", the Crown accepted McDermott's guilty plea to one assault involving striking her on the head with his hand.McDermott was shot after being confronted by three masked men near a relative's home in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, in January 2020.