Convicted knifeman in schoolboy attack

Assault happened on housing estate

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The accused, now of Beechwood Drive, Renfrew, will discover his fate on September 11.

He admitted an amended charge of assaulting the youngster in Perth’s Argyll Road on August 22, 2017, by seizing hold of him, pushing him against a fence and restraining him there, to his injury.

The original charge, which he denied, alleged that he placed the 12-year-old in a headlock before pushing him against metal railings.

He was then said to have forcibly turned the boy’s head and restrained him there, to his injury.

Lochridge admitted a number of previous convictions, including his High Court appearance 14 years ago.

While he awaited sentence on the stabbing charges, Lochridge, who was 28 at the time, was abducted by a punishment squad who tried to hack off his head and hand, a court was told.

He was unable to appear for sentence at Glasgow High Court at the time because he was still recovering from his injuries.

Solicitor advocate Jim Wallace told judge Lord Philip that Lochridge was abducted and attacked in a pub earlier.

He was treated in Glasgow’s Western Infirmary and needed 23 stitches and 15 staples in his wounds.

Mr Wallace said: “An attempt was made to amputate his hand and there was a similar attack on the back of his head.”

The previous month, Lochridge admitted stabbing two revellers, one dressed up as a Ku Klux Klansman, returning from a Hallowe’en fancy dress party in Renfrew organised by the Apprentice Boys of Derry.

One of the injured men was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after suffering nine knife wounds to his chest and abdomen.

The other victim had knife wounds in his abdomen and right thigh and also needed surgery.

Lochridge was subsequently jailed for a total of 63 months on both charges.