Dundee thug jailed for brutal attack on shopkeeper
ByAlan Wilson
A still image from CCTV showing Liddell approaching the shop.
A masked thug who brutally attacked a shopkeeper during a botched robbery attempt was today handed an extended sentence of six years and four months.
Gavin Liddell, 33, of Dundee, will serve four years and four months in prison and the two-year extended portion out on licence.
Jim Laverty, defending, told the High Court in Livingston his client remembered nothing about the attack and had expressed genuine remorse for what he’d done.
Passing sentence, Judge Lord Kinclaven told Liddell he had accepted responsibility for committing “an offence of the utmost seriousness”.
Liddell who was high on drugs was wearing an electronic tag when he raided a Dundee licensed grocers in February after being released early from prison on a home detention curfew.
The court heard that shopkeeper Mohamed Safdar, 50, could have bled to death from the severe injuries inflicted by Liddell using a knife and length of pipe.
Liddell had a string of previous convictions for assault and robbery and for breaches of the Firearms Act.
