A thug once locked up for supplying ecstasy to a young girl which killed her has now been jailed for 12 years for brutal knife attacks.

Barry Rainey, 30, pounced on Joseph McNicol and Desmond Connolly at a flat in Renton, West Dunbartonshire in March this year.

Jurors heard how both victims were left horrifically injured.

Mr McNicol – who claimed he had been attacked in a case of “mistaken identity” - was in hospital for 10 days with six wounds.

Rainey was back in the dock six years after he supplied deadly ecstasy pills to 18-year-old Demi Campbell.

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Demi died after taking the drugs – known as “Green Rolex” - at a house party in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire.

Rainey – who was jailed for three years for the ecstasy charges in 2013 – denied these latest crimes.

But he was today convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

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Rainey was found guilty of assaulting Mr McNicol to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.

Jurors found he had also attacked Mr Connolly to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment.

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Lord Mulholland told Rainey: “The lock-back knife used by you is a fearsome weapon, which you said you had for your protection.

“It is a knife not manufactured for peeling potatoes or cutting ribbon for a present.

“It is a knife made for causing injury. After the attack on Mr McNicol, he sat on a couch while waiting for an ambulance with part of his bowel hanging out.

“You stabbed Desmond Connolly on the leg causing a great loss of blood.

“This was not an isolated act of violence. You are a man of violence.”

As well as the drugs case, it emerged Rainey had a lengthy criminal record stretching back to when he was 15.

Jurors heard claims Rainey had gone to the flat to sell drugs and had armed himself for protection.