Man jailed for injuring victim with crossbow

A man who fired a crossbow bolt into his victim’s chest has been jailed after a judge told him: “This is not medieval times.”

Dylan Gowans, 23, discharged with weapon in the direction of a group of people he believed were responsible for attacking his grandfather’s home.

But he instead struck Archibald Climson, who happened to be out looking for his daughter.

Mr Climson, 46, suffered a collapsed lung and needed a blood transfusion following the incident.

Gowans was yesterday jailed for three years and nine months at the High Court in Glasgow.

The supermarket worker had earlier pled guilty to culpably and recklessly discharging a crossbow to the danger of Mr Climson’s life.

The crime occurred in the city’s Easterhouse in the early hours of 11 September, 2016.