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A Lanarkshire soldier carried out a savage murder bid on a complete stranger while on weekend leave.

A soldier carried out a brutal murder bid on a stranger while on weekend leave.

link!The dad of two said he’d come out of the shower and was wearing only a towel at the time.He needed stitches in wounds to his nose and above his eye.The victim, 30, told prosecutor Michael Macintosh: “I was sitting at the back door, having a fag.“I just had a towel around me as I had been in the shower.“I heard a big bang – the gate sounded as if it had been broken through.“The next thing I woke up in a pool of blood with my neighbours trying to help me.”The victim said he was taken to hospital for treatment, adding: “I couldn’t see my weans for two weeks because of the state of my face.“It wouldn’t have been nice for them to see it.“I told them I had fallen down the stairs.

A “serial shoplifter” caught with a knife on three separate occasions has been jailed for nearly three years.

rapist who threatened to "snap" his pregnant partner's neck has been ordered to stay away from her for three years. Terrified Gemma Mooney feared for her life after thug Richard Wotherspoon warned he would "take a murder charge" for her.

Ammunition for a rifle was found during a search of a house in Larkhall.

The girlfriend of a convicted rapist feared for her life when he attacked her in their home.