Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A depraved thug bound a man with carpet fitting tape before carrying out a horror attack, beating him with a hammer and slashing him with a knife.Paul Davidson burst into the victim’s Edinburgh house and knocked him unconscious before tying him up and putting him on a chair.The 29-year-old inflicted a brutal torture ordeal on Gary Robinson as he screamed out with his mouth covered.Davidson used a kitchen knife to slash the side of Robinson’s face and tried to cut through his collar bone, but the blade became tangled in the victim’s dressing gown.He appeared via prison video link at the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday and pled guilty to assaulting.
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