Halloween horror thug who stabbed boy with scissors walks free despite catalogue of violence

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A thug who dodged prison for a Halloween scissor attack which left a schoolboy scarred for life has continued to walk free despite admitting a catalogue of further crimes.Reece Duncan, 20, left a 15-year-old boy lying in a pool of blood after stabbing him several times during an orgy of drink-fuelled Halloween violence.Duncan walked free from Perth Sheriff Court in November 2022 with a warning that his age - he was 18 at the time - had helped to keep him out of custody.Since then Duncan has continued to avoid custody despite admitting a list of offending including having weapons, defying bail, vandalism and threatening behaviour.Duncan, Bute Drive, admitted five new cases at the court, but Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence for good behaviour until 29 January and released him on bail again.The court heard that Duncan pulled a baseball bat on two of his neighbours after hearing them making death threats towards him from the common close outside his home.

He admitted having an offensive weapon in Bute Drive, Perth, on July, 5 2024.He admitted breaching a court curfew on June, 15 2021 - just four days after it was imposed.

He admitted a similar offence between 4 and 6 January 2023.Duncan admitted smashing up two cars with a hammer in Carnegie Place, Perth, on May, 26 2024, and acting in a threatening manner on September 27 by shouting aggressively and making racist remarks.Sheriff Wood told Duncan: "You are constantly a source of disappointment to me.

Having been involved in a rather ugly incident in October 2020, you were made aware this behaviour wouldn't be tolerated."I thought that close encounter with custody might help moderate your behaviour.