A man has been jailed for two and a half years for a brutal knife attack on his cousin, which left the victim with permanent scarring on his head and face.
Marcus Syme, 25, was jailed by Sheriff Alastair Carmichael after a jury found him guilty of assault.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Syme repeatedly attacked his cousin Charlie Walker with a knife at Syme’s mother’s house in Kirk Street, Lochee, on May 3 last year.
Mr Walker suffered cuts to his head and face and required several stitches following the attack.
He was left with a permanent four-inch scar on his forehead and a two and a half-inch cut to the back of the head after being slashed by the knife-wielding thug, the court heard.
He also suffered cuts, bruises and abrasions to his body.
Syme, of Charleston Street, had denied the assualt charge, and the case went to trial.
A jury found Syme guilty by a majority of the single charge, on indictment, of assaulting Mr Walker.
He was found guilty of struggling with Mr Walker, repeatedly striking him on the head and body with a knife or other similar implement, to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Sheriff Carmichael jailed Syme for 30 months.
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