A BISCUIT factory worker tried to kill a man who offered to share a taxi with the thug's girlfriend.
Connor Blackmore, 21, repeatedly stabbed Darren Gallagher during an attack a judge described as "cowardly and unprovoked".
The victim was left with potentially life-threatening injuries following the street assault in Glasgow's Craigend.
Blackmore, who already had a criminal record for violence, was yesterday locked up for six years and nine months after he pleaded guilty to an attempted murder charge.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Lord Bannatyne said the sentence would have been nine years but for the guilty plea.
The judge told Blackmore: "On any view, this was a vicious, cowardly, sustained and unprovoked attack involving the use of a deadly weapon."
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