Two brothers who maimed a person in a vicious homicide bid throughout a road assault have been jailed for greater than 12 years at the moment.
Paul O'Doherty, 30, was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and his youthful sibling Jake O'Doherty, 27, handed 4 years and 152 days in custody, following the tried homicide of Umair Khan within the Tollcross space of Edinburgh.
The pair have been armed with weapons throughout the assault on Khan, then 34, who was punched on the top with a knuckle duster and repeatedly stabbed within the again.
A decide advised them on the Excessive Court docket in Edinburgh that they'd carried out a "brutal" assault on their sufferer on September 13, 2020.
Lord Harrower identified that one in every of three stab wounds to Khan was of such violence it left the blade of the knife embedded in him.
The decide stated: "It took six hours of surgical procedure to take away the blade."
The sufferer was transferred to a hospital spinal unit.
Lord Harrower stated that Khan, now 35, nonetheless can't stand or stroll with out assistance from crutches.
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Paul O'Doherty, of Wallsend, Tyneside, and his youthful brother had earlier denied the homicide bid on Khan in a lane operating between Glen Avenue and Panmure Place, however have been discovered responsible of the offence by a jury on the Excessive Court docket in Glasgow.
They have been convicted of assaulting him to his extreme harm, everlasting disfigurement and impairment and to the hazard of his life and trying to homicide him.
Defence solicitor advocate Ewen Roy, for the older brother, stated: "There may be nothing that I can say to mitigate the offence itself as he continues to disclaim his involvement."
He stated: "He has been convicted of a gratuitous act of violence that was each stunning and utterly out of character for him."
Roy advised the courtroom that following his shopper's place he couldn't advance any regret or sufferer empathy on his half.
He stated the father-of-three had no prison report and no excellent instances towards him.
He stated that the older brother had an excellent work report and was assessed as posing a low threat of additional offending, including: "He's not concerned in severe, organised crime."
Defence counsel Kenneth Cloggie, for the youthful brother, stated that he maintained the place that was superior at trial when he denied the offence.
Lord Harrower advised the youthful brother that in setting his sentence that he took under consideration that he spent 289 days on remand earlier than the trial.
Jake O'Doherty was armed with the knuckle duster throughout the assault on Khan and the courtroom heard that he has a earlier conviction for possession for possessing an identical weapon.
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