Published: Tuesday, 22nd May, 2007 09:25
DUO KNIFED AFTER FIGHT
By COURT REPORTER
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A THUG knifed two men in a drunken row outside a kebab shop.
After stabbing his victims, 20-year-old Jamie Buist then went partying, the High Court in Glasgow heard.
Bernard Ablett, prosecuting, told the court that one of the victims had been at a funeral that day and then had gone on a drinking session with friends.
He added: `They came across the accused at midnight outside the Taj Tandoori.`
The court was told that a fight broke out between the parties.
Mr Ablett added: `The accused pulled out a kitchen knife and stabbed the victim on the left arm and back.`
Buist then ran at the second man, stabbing him in the abdomen, left arm and back.
Mr Albett said: `Police were initially unable to trace the accused. He later handed himself into a police station and said he had been partying all weekend after the incident in the Renton area.`
Buist, of 20 Keil Crescent, Dumbarton, admitted assaulting the 19 and 20-year-old men by repeatedly striking them on the body with a knife to their severe injury and permanent disfigurement on September 8 last year.
The offence took place at West Bridgend, Dumbarton.
The first offender was originally charged with attempting to murder both men, but the Crown accepted his guilty plea to the reduced charges. Both victims have been left with scarring as a result of the attack.
Doctors said that one of the men, who suffered a hole in his stomach and diaphram and spent nine days in hospital, was lucky that the knife had not penetrated his heart or spleen.
Judge Lord Brailsford deferred sentence on Buist until next month and remanded him in custody.
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