Scots mum opens up on horror of losing fingers in 'horrendous' machete attack at her home
dailyrecord.co.ukGangsters from Liverpool are believed to have travelled to Scotland to carry out a horror machete attack on a couple over an unpaid six-figure debt.The male victim was so badly injured he had to have his right leg amputated while his partner lost two fingers on her left hand when she was hurt as she tried to call police.The 28-year-old mum-of-two, from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, told how her life will never be the same following the terrifying ordeal.She said: “It’s a horrendous thing that happened to me and it’s difficult to talk about.“I’m just trying to move forward with my life and recover from all of this.
It has been a traumatic experience.“I’m trying to focus on me and the kids at the moment. My partner and I have now gone our separate ways.
I’m not in touch with him any more. “I can’t tell you why we were attacked. I don’t know the ins and outs of the story as he hasn’t been honest with me about what happened.” The attack took place on May 19 at about 2.30am.
The couple were taken by ambulance to Monklands Hospital, in Airdrie, for treatment and the amputations on both victims were carried out later by surgeons.
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