Terrified teenage girl fled into cupboard as knife thugs entered house
Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our daily Criminal Record newsletter.Two armed thugs butchered a man with a cleaver and a knife in a Paisley robbery as a 14-year-old girl hid in a cupboard.Grant McNamara, 28, and Martin Docherty, 27, chased victim Dale Mitchell into a flat in the town’s Broomlands Street, where they stabbed and slashed him in a frenzied attack.Paisley Sheriff Court heard when McNamara and Docherty spotted Mr Mitchell leaving the close on October 18 last year they ran over shouting and hounded him up three flights of stairs, bursting into the property he fled to.McNamara was waving a meat cleaver and Docherty was armed with a knife.Procurator fiscal