Article: ONLY PLACE FOR THESE SAVAGES IS CARSTAIRS; EXCLUSIVE KNIFE ATTACKERS PREPARED FOR THEIR RELEASE But they'll now live next to a school.(News)

Byline: By Craig McDonald

TWO of Scotland's most deranged knife fiends are to take their first steps towards freedom.

Gregor McGurk and Owen Bonner - whose crimes shocked Scotland - have been deemed fit for a move out of the maximum-security State Hospital at Carstairs.

They'll be housed instead at a lesser secure unit close to Edinburgh city centre - next to a primary school.

McGurk, 42, beat his father to death with a cricket bat in 1997 - then cut off his head with a knife and kicked it around a car park.

Bonner, 39, held two ...

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