A tenant who hunted down and stabbed his former flatmate in a row over money has been jailed for 11 months.
Richard McMenemy waited 18 months to trace his ex-flatmate David Muir and turned up at his door with another man and a knife in his hand.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told McMenemy, 58, was seeking revenge on Mr Muir after feeling he had been left out of pocket during 12 weeks living together.
McMenemy, of Ann Street, Dundee, admitted attacking Mr Muir by punching him and then stabbing him on the body to his injury, before chasing him.
‘I done it… I’ll do it again’
Fiscal depute Stewart Duncan told the court the two men had shared a rented property for three months towards the end of 2017.
On May 5 2019, McMenemy – with another unidentified man – arrived at Mr Muir’s new home in the city’s Court Street and confronted him at the door.
Part of the man’s hand was slashed as McMenemy lunged at him with the knife but he managed to get past his attacker after a brief struggle on the doorstep.
McMenemy told police: “I took matters into my own hands.
“I’ll admit that I done it and I’ll do it again and again.”
He also admitted smashing a glass bottle and issuing threats to another man in Dundee on June 15 last year, as well as resisting the officers who turned up to arrest him.
Sheriff Alistair Carmichael said: “This is very serious as it involved you lashing out at somebody and striking them on the body with a knife.
“There is no option but a custodial sentence.”
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