The victim of a vicious assault has told how his ear was "hanging off" after he was slashed by a man in a Hamilton close. Alan Hulston chased the man along the street before attacking him with an unknown sharp weapon outside his home.
Hulston, 55, of Marswood Green, Hamilton, appeared at the town's sheriff court. The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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I didn't know the couple who lived there but they called an ambulance for me."I sat on the toilet with a towel over my ear. The bottom half of my ear was hanging off."The man
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