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Article: Argument over Cocker Spaniel led to stabbing.
- Article from:
- Selkirk Weekend Advertiser (Selkirk, Scotland)
- Article date:
- November 15, 2007
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A COURT has been told how a New Year knife attack left a man fighting for his life at the Borders General Hospital.
A medical team saved Dennis Smith but the former sheepdog champion will be scarred for life.
The 47-year-old was attacked with a large kitchen knife as he answered the door of his home in Yarrowford.
He was stabbed in the face and a wound to the tongue saw BGH staff fighting to close a wound as his blood pressure dropped dangerously low.
Attacker 31-year-old Ryan Rees lashed out with a nine-inch-bladed knife after knocking on his victim's door.
Rees - of Anderson Road in Hawick - was originally charged with ...