The sufferer of a vicious assault has advised how his ear was "hanging off" after he was slashed by a person in a Hamilton shut.
Alan Hulston chased the person alongside the road earlier than attacking him with an unknown sharp weapon outdoors his residence.
Hulston, 55, of Marswood Inexperienced, Hamilton, appeared on the city's sheriff courtroom.
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He denied assaulting his sufferer to his extreme damage and everlasting disfigurement on George Road on August 9, 2020.
Nonetheless, a jury returned a majority responsible verdict after trial.
The courtroom heard the assault occurred in broad daylight.
Hulston waited for the person outdoors a store and chased him alongside Glasgow Street, threatening to kill him.
CCTV footage of the pursuit was proven in courtroom.
The sufferer fled residence solely to seek out Hulston ready outdoors his door in a block of flats.
Hulston ran in the direction of him and he tried to flee by way of the again door within the shut.
The sufferer then felt the "thud" of a single blow to the facet of his head earlier than his ear went "numb".
He advised Toni Hicks, prosecuting: "Hulston was nonetheless coming after me and I bumped into the following block of flats.
"I went right into a flat on the primary flooring. I did not know the couple who lived there however they known as an ambulance for me.
"I sat on the bathroom with a towel over my ear. The underside half of my ear was hanging off."
The person was taken to hospital the place the wound was stitched.
He added: "I misplaced a bit of my ear that could not be saved. I've scarring and nonetheless get ache."
Hulston admitted following his sufferer to his residence that afternoon, however denied chasing and attacking him.
He insisted that he had solely "needed a phrase with him" after listening to that he had threatened Hulston's aged mom.
After the responsible verdict, Sheriff Colin Dunipace deferred sentence till subsequent month and allowed Hulston to stay on bail.
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