Scots knifeman who stabbed housing worker with steak knife in rampage over new home is jailed for life

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stabbed a Scots housing association worker who was trying to help him has been jailed for life. Peter Cannon launched the unprovoked attack on Lynne Robertson as she sat behind her desk at River Clyde Homes, Greenock, on September 30 last year.

The 54-year-old stabbed his victim twice with a steak knife after claiming he had been “messed about” when trying to find himself a new house.A brave pensioner, 71, who witnessed the horror attack picked up a chair and threw it at Cannon in a bid to protect the bleeding housing worker.The fiend was warned he may never be released from prison after admitting the murder bid on the 45-year-old woman, who was “entirely innocent and defenceless”.