A THUG has been jailed for three years for slashing two beggars with a knife outside a nightclub, leaving one scarred for life.
James Connelly, 29, was found guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court today for the assaults on Gordon Hunt and Catherine Drummond outside Firewater on Sauchiehall Street last December.
Jurors heard Connelly had been speaking to the victims before coming back minutes later to attack them with a blade.
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Connelly had told a man that he had been in an argument with “two junkies” and wanted to get a “lockback for slitting their throats”.
Prosecutor Chris Farrell told the court: “The Head of Security at Firewater saw Connelly with a knife 20 minutes after he spoke to Mr Hunt and Miss Drummond at the bank beside the club.
“He saw Connelly go up to Mr Hunt and drive a blade across his face and when Miss Drummond went up to him, she got the same treatment.”
The early hours attack was caught on CCTV.
Connelly was on bail at the time.
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The trial was told Miss Drummond has been left scarred for life.
Sheriff John McCormick said: “This was an unprovoked assault on a woman beggar on the street.
“The man was at the wrong place at the wrong time and you used a knife to assault two victims."
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