A knife thug almost killed an old schoolmate when he stabbed him in the heart.
Ciaran Sharkey tried to murder Ben Docherty during the brutal onslaught on a Rutherglen Street, he only survived thanks to the skills of medics who carried out life saving surgery.
Jailing the 24-year-old for six years today at the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lady Drummond said: "Had he not been taken to hospital so quickly and had three senior registrars not been present to perform a life saving operation it is unlikely he would have survived."
