A 23-year-old Fife man has been jailed for 15 months after knifing his victim in a revenge attack.
Dean Currie screamed ‘now you know what it feels like to feel the wrath of Glasgow’ as he stabbed Birrell Stewart at Lawrence Street, Buckhaven, on January 25.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Tuesday, Currie, of Coronation Place, Coaltown of Wemyss, admitted stabbing Mr Stewart twice with the two-and-a-half-inch blade.
He was convicted of repeatedly punching and kicking Mr Stewart on the head and striking him on the body with a knife, all to his injury.
Sheriff Alasdair Thornton heard Currie was the victim of a serious assault late last year at which Mr Stewart was present.
Currie’s solicitor said that due to the assault his client had lost 28% of his vision on one eye.
When Currie saw Mr Stewart on the day in question he began to panic, first pointing him out to police officers then fleeing into a house on Lawrence Street.
When he saw Mr Stewart outside of the house he decided to take matters into his own hands.
His solicitor said: “Mr Currie went into the house as he felt threatened. He had picked up a knife, with a two-and-a-half-inch blade, then went out of the house and became involved.
“In the scuffle Mr Stewart was stabbed on two occasions. Mr Currie is not a man who has an extensive record. His actions were more related to fear and panic.”
Sheriff Alasdair Thornton said: “The complainer, Mr Stewart, was involved to some extent. He was not ultimately convicted, but he was present when you were the victim of an unprovoked serious assault in 2012.
“You armed yourself and shouted, ‘now you know what it feels like to feel the wrath of Glasgow’. Mr Stewart has not made much of the assault.
“Fortunately the injuries Mr Stewart suffered were not life threatening. The court will not tolerate the use of knives. This was not self-defence.
“Given the deliberate arming and use of a knife, I am satisfied that the only sentence open to me is custodial.”