Spanish authorities have rejected a bid by a Lanarkshire knife thug to serve the remainder of a 15-year prison sentence in Scotland.
William McDonald wanted to be repatriated close to home just two years into the sentence for stabbing his former partner three times at his holiday home in Alicante.
He was convicted of trying to murder one-time Miss Scotland finalist Mhairi Campbell in 2017, the Daily Record reports. He has been held in Spain since being picked up on a European Arrest Warrant in Scotland the following year and finally convicted in 2021.
