The victim of a vicious assault has told how his ear was "hanging off" after he was slashed by a man in a Hamilton close.
Alan Hulston chased the man along the street before attacking him with an unknown sharp weapon outside his home.
Hulston, 55, of Marswood Green, Hamilton, appeared at the town's sheriff court.
He denied assaulting his victim to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement on George Street on August 9, 2020.
However, a jury returned a majority guilty verdict after trial.
The court heard the attack happened in broad daylight.
Hulston waited for the man outside a shop and chased him along Glasgow Road, threatening to kill him.
CCTV footage of the pursuit was shown in court.
The victim fled home only to find Hulston waiting outside his door in a block of flats.
Hulston ran towards him and he tried to escape via the back door in the close.
The victim then felt the "thud" of a single blow to the side of his head before his ear went "numb".
He told Toni Hicks, prosecuting: "Hulston was still coming after me and I ran into the next block of flats.
"I went into a flat on the first floor. I didn't know the couple who lived there but they called an ambulance for me.
"I sat on the toilet with a towel over my ear. The bottom half of my ear was hanging off."
The man was taken to hospital where the wound was stitched.
He added: "I lost a chunk of my ear that couldn't be saved. I have scarring and still get pain."
Hulston admitted following his victim to his home that afternoon, but denied chasing and attacking him.
He insisted that he had only "wanted a word with him" after hearing that he had threatened Hulston's elderly mother.
After the guilty verdict, Sheriff Colin Dunipace deferred sentence until next month and allowed Hulston to remain on bail.
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