The spouse of a Scots OAP who was left mendacity in a pool of blood after being attacked by his neighbour in a row over a parking area has hit out after the thug who assaulted him escaped jail.
Christina McKibbin, 79, thought her husband Frederick was lifeless when she noticed him unconscious on the bottom exterior their Glasgow house on June 22, 2019.
The grandad, 82, suffered a head damage after being assaulted by upstairs neighbour Daniel O’Donnell who he had gone to confront over the parking area fallout.
Frederick was rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary, the place he obtained therapy for a foul gash on his head earlier than discharging himself the subsequent day.
O’Donnell, 66, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Courtroom on Thursday the place he admitted pushing the pensioner and inflicting him to hit his head off the bottom.
He was handed a £520 tremendous which the sufferer’s household have branded “disgusting” and say they don't really feel justice has been served.
Spouse Christina, 79, informed how the couple had been experiencing parking points exterior their Townhead house resulting from damaged bollards so had blocked their area off with a rope, however neighbour O'Donnell had seized the rope earlier than reducing it up and posting it by means of Frederick's letterbox.
Christina defined: “I used to be mendacity in mattress after I heard the letter field going so I acquired up and located the rope mendacity all minimize up into small items and it had been posted by means of the door.
“I opened the door and O'Donnell was standing midway up the second flight of stairs laughing. I informed him he was off his head and went and closed the door.
“My husband was on the brink of exit with the canine earlier than bedtime and he requested me what had occurred, so I informed him.
“He stated he was going to talk to O'Donnell, however I informed him simply to go away it.
“However my husband then began strolling up the steps to go converse to him however then he pushed my husband who fell down and banged his head.
“He was unconscious. After I noticed him mendacity there I truly thought he was lifeless as a result of he wasn’t coming spherical. O'Donnell then ran up the steps and referred to as the police himself.
“The police later stated that they had a recording of the decision the place he stated he thought he’d killed my husband, in order that they stated he couldn’t get away with it.
“The touchdown was coated in blood. The forensics got here out and have been taking images of all of it.
“He pleaded responsible to pushing him down the steps and knocking him unconscious, however he’s walked away with a tremendous and that’s it. I’m disgusted."
Frederick's spouse and household imagine that he has by no means absolutely recovered from the traumatic incident and say he modified perpetually after his head damage.
Christina added: “His entire persona modified in spite of everything that. He began to get quieter and quieter.
“He used to crack foolish jokes on a regular basis however he stopped all that, and he started staying in and stopped going out with the canine.
The McKibbin's have been dealt an additional blow in January this yr when Frederick was identified with most cancers.
Christina stated: “The most cancers is in his prostate and he additionally has two tumours in his lung. The decide stated that he couldn’t relate the assault to being the reason for the that, however the entire household feels that justice hasn’t been performed.
"That man ought to’ve been despatched away for what he did."
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