Scots killer caged after being caught brandishing saw in street

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has been jailed after he was caught in the street armed with a saw. Serial knife thug Anthony Mackin, 49, was found with the potentially deadly weapon in his home street shortly before Christmas.

Mackin, who has four previous convictions for possession of knives and four for assault, was seen repeatedly striking a lamppost with the tool.

Paisley Sheriff Court heard on Monday that a concerned member of the public phoned 999 after seeing Mackin with the weapon, which they believed was an axe.

Officers raced to the scene and Mackin made off, initially telling them he had the weapon as he'd been chopping wood. But he later claimed there was a padlock on the lamppost he was trying to cut off - and the court heard a lawyer had photographed the.