Dundee man jailed for three years after ‘ghastly and serious’ knife attack on neighbour

A Dundee man who stabbed a neighbour in the chest in a “ghastly and serious” attack has been jailed for three years.

Stewart Macrae said victim George Tracey was his “enemy” and that “I had to chib him, it was him or me,” after police found him in his Carlochie Place flat with blood on his hands and the knife in his pocket.

Dundee Sheriff Court previously heard that Mr Tracey, who has since died from unrelated causes, sustained a 2-3cm puncture wound to the left side of his chest.

Macrae, 40, a prisoner at Perth admitted assaulting George Tracey to his severe injury and to the danger of his life by stabbing him on the body with a knife at Carlochie Place on April 25.

Jailing Macrae for three years Sheriff Elizabeth Munro said: “This was a ghastly and serious assault.”

See Wednesday’s Courier for more on this story.