Published: Wednesday, 5th March, 2008 10:00
Stabber sent to jail for brutal penknife attack
By Court Reporter
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A VICIOUS teen — who nearly killed a man with a £1 penknife — has finally been jailed.
Darren Mundie avoided jail time for the attack when he was originally sentenced for it in 2006 — the sheriff opting to put him on probation instead.
But the 18-year-old failed to comply with the order and is now behind bars.
Dumbarton Sheriff Court was told how drink fuelled Mundie and his mates came across Clydebank man Scott Vincent, who was with a group of teenage girls.
It was claimed Mundie’s mate then assaulted Mr Vincent because he had reading a newspaper report detailing how Mountblow man Mr Vincent had been in court for assaulting a girl.
It was then that Mundie launched his vicious attack.
Henna Chaudry, fiscal depute, told the court: “Mr Vincent was knocked to the ground and [Mundie] then said something to his friends along the lines of ‘watch out whilst I stab him’.
“[Mundie] then began to thrust down several times towards the complainer, in a stabbing motion, with a penknife.”
As the witnesses fled Mundie told them: “I have just stabbed him, he’s dead.”
Police found Mr Vincent — who was 33 at the time — lying bleeding in the street.
When they asked Mr Vincent what had happened he told them he had fell.
He had, in fact, been stabbed five times and was dying — one of the blows had sliced the pericardial sac around the heart.
Doctors said that if had it not been for the emergency surgery Mr Vincent would not have survived.
Medics had to remove two litres of blood from the victim’s chest.
Mundie had also left his victim with wounds to his back, hands and above his eye.
Mundie admitted assaulting Mr Vincent to his severe injury and danger to his life, during the incident at 9pm on April 8 2005 in Talisman Avenue, Dumbarton.
Mundie’s lawyer, Kenny Clark said: “The weapon was a penknife come cigarette lighter, purchased in Poundland.
“He failed to comply with the terms of the probation order as his life was chaotic, down to a mixture of drink and drugs.
“He had just turned 16 when this offence occurred.”
The court heard that Mundie had been on remand for breaching the order since February 7, during which time he had met Mr Vincent in Greenock Prison.
Mr Clark added: “There is no bad blood.”
Sheriff Simon Fraser jailed Mundie, of 25 Cumbrae Crescent South, Castlehill, for three years and said: “You were very lucky to be given a chance of probation and you went and blew it completely.
“You almost killed someone, if it was not for the skill of the surgeons you would be facing a murder charge.”
Members of Mundie’s family cried as he was led away to the cells with one shouting “we love you”.
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