Nurse jailed after stabbing party guest four times
A NURSE who stabbed a guest at his birthday party four times has been jailed for 18 months.
Grant Newman, 26, of Brunton Gardens, Montgomery Street, Edinburgh, went back to his flat with a group of friends after celebrating his birthday on March 9.
More alcohol was consumed and Fraser Scott banged Newman’s head against a radiator, causing him to bleed, Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard.
Other friends threw Mr Scott out. He the ripped a wing mirror from a car and threw it through Newman’s living-room window.
Newman took a kitchen knife and ran outside, where he stabbed Mr Scott four times.
One of the other guests found him lying in a pool of blood outside the Tesco supermarket in Leith Walk.
He had stab wounds to his right elbow, right wrist and back. A coil had to be inserted into a blood vessel in his liver.
Richard Goddard, appearing for Newman, said Newman had been seriously assaulted in his own home nine months before and was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He had little recollection of the stabbing.
He said Newman had never been in trouble before and now abstained from alcohol completely. He came from a good, honest and law-abiding family, had done well at school and at Napier University and in his employment for five years.
He pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to repeatedly stabbing Mr Scott.
Sentencing him, Sheriff Gordon Liddle said: “Knife crime, which is in the papers every day, is something the public, quite rightly wants stopped.”
