Knife murderer found guilty after stabbing victim in the neck during street row

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A knife attacker who fatally stabbed a man in the neck during a street confrontation has been warned he faces a life sentence for the murder of his victim.Ryan McCabe, 49, inflicted neck wounds to Liam Maloney, 30, during the assault in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh on May 5 last year.Mr Maloney later died at St John's Hospital in Livingston, in West Lothian, after contracting a thrombosis following emergency surgery on him.The High Court in Edinburgh heard that the victim had sustained two stab wounds to his neck and underwent an operation after a jugular vein was severed in the attack by the most serious injury inflicted by McCabe, which was about four inches deep.McCabe had denied murdering the victim in the attack at the junction of Niddrie Marischal Grove and Niddrie Marischal Road, but was convicted of the offence by a majority of the jury at his trial.After the verdict jurors heard that he was convicted of a further serious attack with a knife in 2020.The trial judge said the previous conviction was "significant" and told him: "Over two years later you carried out the most serious crime."Lord Scott said: "You have been convicted by the jury of murder.

There is only one sentence that I can pass for that, which is a sentence of life imprisonment."The judge said he could have sentenced McCabe, from Niddrie, on Thursday but wanted to take time to consider victim impact statements from the parents and sister of the deceased and to call for a background report on the murderer.Lord Scott said he wanted that available to him before fixing the punishment part of a life sentence for McCabe, which is the minimum term he must serve in prison prior to becoming eligible to apply for parole.