A killer stabbed his neighbour to dying after a row about their houses descended into homicide.
Jorgo Pano had a long-running disagreement over " planning permission, driveways and automotive parking" with Dave Newton and his household.
Violence was sparked when the 44 year-old hurled paint over his fence onto the Newtons' automotive late at evening.
A struggle then broke out on the afternoon of March 7 final yr within the usually quiet McAllister Avenue in Airdrie, Lanarkshire the place the households lived.
Crazed Pano went on to knife Dave, 48, within the neck after speeding into his residence to seize a blade.
The tragic dad died three days later in hospital.
Pano - a primary offender - insisted what occurred had been an "accident".
However, jurors discovered him responsible of homicide as he was jailed for all times and ordered to serve a minimal 16 years behind bars.
A decide on the Excessive Court docket in Glasgow acknowledged the killing had been a "catastrophe" for everybody involved.
Greek/Albanian Pano moved to the road along with his spouse Fiona and household round eight years in the past.
The trial heard how there had been "disputes" between himself and the Newtons, who lived subsequent door.
His QC Iain McSporran requested Pano: "The falling out over planning permission and automotive parking and the driveway by no means obtained as critical as this, did it?"
He replied: "No, it didn't. I'm devastated."
Within the hours earlier than the tragedy, Pano was clocked lobbing paint on the Newton's motor damaging the car.
Afterward the Sunday afternoon, Pano was out doing gardening work when he was confronted by Dave's son-in-law Lee Harris about what occurred.
The boys began combating and Pano smacked Lee with a spade. Gravel was additionally chucked.
Dave and his spouse Angela got here out to the road. Others neighbours joined to try to calm issues. Pano went on to spit in Angela's face.
The row appeared to finish and Lee headed again to the Newtons.
However, he then noticed Pano racing out his entrance door brandishing a knife.
Jurors watched the horror which was captured on CCTV.
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Lee recalled: "He then bumped into the center of the highway within the course of Dave and the opposite neighbour Billy McDonald.
"He then swung the knife in a downward movement in an try and inflict injury on Dave. He missed and Billy was making an attempt to drag him away. The neighbour's spouse was out screaming: 'no, cease'.
"The neighbour (Pano) then put the knife in his left hand, swung excessive of Billy's head and hit Dave stabbing him within the neck.
"Dave instantly put his fingers there. He obtained assist again to the home. I used to be shouting on neighbours to cellphone an ambulance."
Prosecutor David Dickson requested the witness: "How did he (Pano) seem when he got here out?"
Lee: "In a blind rage. He got here out operating."
The Newtons' different neighbour Stephen Trainor rushed to Dave's assist.
He instructed the jury: "I seen Dave on his knees subsequent to the entrance door. He was in shock, panting for breath, chalk white.
"He appeared traumatised by the entire episode. I used to be saying: 'It is alright, massive man."
Advocate depute Mr Dickson: "Did he converse again to you?"
The witness: "Not a phrase."
Dave sadly handed away on March 10 at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth College Hospital.
Pano - who labored as an air situation engineer - accepted at trial he had fatally struck his neighbour.
However, he claimed to have solely obtained a knife as he feared for himself and his then pregnant spouse.
This was regardless of one witness stating Dave was "not a violent man".
Pano stated he had fallen ahead with the knife in his hand and hit the dad.
His QC Mr McSporran: "Are you saying it occurred by chance?"
Pano: "Sure."
In addition to homicide, Pano was additionally responsible of assaulting Lee and had beforehand admitted spitting at Angela.
Members of Dave's household sobbed and hugged one another because the verdicts had been introduced.
It emerged Angela had penned an emotional sufferer affect assertion to the court docket on the affect of the dying.
No particulars had been learn in open court docket.
However, Mr McSporran stated: "I don't suppose I've learn a extra transferring and eloquent account."
Sentencing, Lord Beckett additionally praised the "courageous and selfless efforts" of different neighbours to try to shield Dave.
The decide instructed Pano: "The dangerous relations along with your neighbours over a few years presents no justification. You contributed considerably to the difficulties between the 2 households.
"You chose the most important knife from your house and charged at him determinedly."
After Pano was result in the cells, the decide spoke to jurors.
He stated: "It's a tragedy that reaches vast on this case. It's only a catastrophe for all involved.
"However, that was a state of affairs introduced by Mr Pano when he introduced out a knife for what had been a reasonably low-level incident."
Police Scotland's Detective Inspector Gordon Sneddon stated: “We welcome the conviction and fast sentencing in the present day of Jorgo Pano. This was a mindless assault on a person in his personal backyard.
"David Newton was a household man and properly favored in the area people. We hope this final result might be of some consolation to David’s household and buddies."
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