A father of 16 who stabbed a man to death in a brutal attack outside a Dundee pub has launched a legal bid to overturn his murder conviction.
Jamie Cumming, 36, is also set to appeal the life sentence handed down last week for the murder of 29-year-old James Getty.
Cumming was found guilty of murdering the father-of-three after a row at a birthday party at the Maltman pub last June.
A spokesman for the High Court in Edinburgh confirmed that it had received an intimation of intention to appeal against conviction and sentence from Cumming’s legal team.
A formal note containing a full statement of all the grounds of appeal must be lodged within the next eight weeks.
During sentencing at the High Court in Edinburgh last week, judge Lady Clark of Calton told Cumming he must serve at least 17 years before he can ask for parole.
The trial heard that Cumming sliced through Mr Getty’s heart, lungs and liver during the argument outside the Maltman pub.
He was found guilty by a majority of the jury of eight men and seven women at the High Court in Dundee last month.
The jury took less than two hours to find him guilty of murdering Mr Getty by striking him repeatedly with a knife or similar instrument at the junction of Mains Road and Mid Road.
Cumming had lodged a special defence of incrimination against James Kelbie on the murder charge.
Following the verdict, advocate depute Gillian Wade said: “The accused is in a relationship and has three children from that and 13 children from various other relationships.”
The trial heard that medics would have been unable to save Mr Getty, even if the stabbing had been in a hospital car park.
Mr Getty had gone to the pub for a 50th birthday celebration for James Kelbie before he clashed with Cumming in the toilet.
Cumming followed his victim into the street, where the attack took place.