Man jailed for stabbing his friend 10 times in a Dundee street

A knife thug who stabbed a friend 10 times and then told him it was his own fault was yesterday jailed for seven years and six months.

Sam Waldron, 26, admitted attempting to murder Lee McPherson in Wedderburn Street, Dundee, on October 6, last year.

Yesterday at High Court in Glasgow Judge Lady Stacey told Waldron: “The stabbing of this man could easily have taken his life. We can just be thankful that wasn't the result. The courts take a very dim view of using a knife against a man who was your friend for whatever reason.

“You present a risk of harm to the public.”

Lady Stacey ordered Waldron to be monitored in the community for two years after his release from jail.

Solicitor advocate Brian Gilfedder said: “Mr Waldron accepts this was an unprovoked and unjustified assault on someone he knew for years.”

Prosecutor Alan Cameron said that a dispute broke out during a party and both men went out into the street where Waldron attacked his friend with a kitchen knife.

At first onlookers thought the two men were having a fist fight, but then noticed that Mr McPherson's shirt was covered in blood.

Paramedics were called and as they waited for them Mr McPherson's was shouting” You stabbed me,” and Waldron was shouting back: “It's your own fault.'

Waldron was then driven off in his father's car and Mr Pherson was taken to hospital where it was discovered he had 10 stab wounds and a collapsed lung.

Police eventually arrested Waldron. His clothes were stained with his victims's blood. The knife was found in Waldron's father's car and Mr McPherson's blood was on the blade.

Mr McPherson refused to give a statement to police about the attack.

• Dundee