Butter knife blues

Mark Mearns was obviously off helping an old lady across the road the day they did table manners at school. Here's how he handles his butter knife -



Unfortunately it isn't his own head, according to the ITV report on Yahoo this afternoon -

Polish national Michal Ciesla, 28, was stabbed last August in Aberdeen by Mark Mearns, 35, when attempting to retrieve his money back from the latter's prostitute girlfriend after she refused to have sex with him.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, the judge, Lord Uist, gave Mearns - who has 140 convictions - a minimum sentence of three years and three months and a lifetime restriction order - meaning he will be supervised after his release.

Mearns had admitted assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and the danger of life.

His solicitor advocate, Iain Paterson, claimed his client wanted to stop his girlfriend selling her body to feed her heroin addiction.

But Lord Uist said Mearns had "contributed nothing to society" and was a "burden" for most of his life.