A Drumchapel man has admitted stabbing a man eight times in an unprovoked attack  in a Glasgow street.

Delivery driver John Wilson, 22, and his co-accused Matthew Davidson, 19, from Castlemilk, attempted to murder William Taube in Edinburgh Road, Glasgow on August, 9 last year.

Mr Taube, who was unarmed at the time, suffered bleeding round his heart and a collapsed lung in the brutal assault.

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At the High Court in Glasgow judge Lord Mulholland told the pair: “You are actually very lucky you are not facing charges of murder.

"I've seen plenty of cases of murder where the injuries were less than you inflicted.

“You have pleaded guilty to attempted murder in a public street in Glasgow.

“You conduct that night was an utter disgrace, to inflict stab wounds on a man who was unarmed.”

The court heard that Davidson, described as a thermal installation trainee, was angry because his girlfriend would not let him attend a birthday party, but asked him to pick her up from there at 3.30am.

He arrived there with his friend Wilson, and instead of waiting in the car outside the address, went into the house.

Prosecutor Lynsey McDonald described an argument between Mr Davidson and his girlfriend before Mr Taube looked in the direction of Mr Davidson.

“Mr Davidson saw Mr Taube looking at him and immediately became angry and told him to get outside," Ms McDonald said.

The pair went outside and Davidson and his girlfriend got into the car, where Wilson was waiting, before the two men got back out and approached Mr Taube.

Ms McDonald said: “The two accused repeatedly punched and stabbed the complainer., who fell to the ground.”

The duo then got back into the car and drove off.

Mr Taube had to undergo emergency surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary to drain blood from round his heart, stop the bleeding and repair the other stab wounds.

Ms McDonald said: “Without medical treatment Mr Taube would have died.”

Sentence was deferred on both men until April for background reports.

Defence counsel will give their pleas in mitigation then.