Scaffolder caught on camera stabbing man in Dundee after victim damaged his car

A scaffolder was caught on camera stabbing a man after the victim damaged his car.

Marcus Stephen maintained that the man he wounded had the knife but he managed to take it away from him before using the weapon, the High Court in Edinburgh heard.

Stephen, 23, admitted assaulting the man to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life on September 26, 2023, on Caird Avenue in Dundee.

Stephen, of Dundee, seized the victim by his clothing, repeatedly struck him on the body with the weapon and kicked him during the attack.

Advocate depute Lindsey Dalziel said Stephen was 22 at the time of the attack and had been working on a contract in the south of England.

The victim and his friends had parked on Clepington Road in Dundee, near to Caird Avenue, and some of them went into a shop. Fraser had remained outside.

Stephen was seen in a VW Golf and his vehicle was approached by the man and his friends. One of the windows on the car was kicked and smashed.

The prosecutor said Stephen got out of his car and later told police that the man had a knife with him but he managed to take it away from him.

He then repeatedly stabbed the victim on the torso, causing bleeding in his chest wall cavity and a collapsed lung as well as other wounds.

The man and his friends got into a car but Stephen approached them and smashed a window of the vehicle as it drove off. The victim was treated at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, but later discharged himself.

The judge, Lady Hood, who was shown footage of the assault during court proceedings today, adjourned sentence on Stephen for the preparation of a background report.

Defence solicitor advocate Kris Gilmartin asked for bail for Stephen to be continued but acknowledged it was an extremely serious offence but said a close relative of Stephen’s had serious health problems..

Lady Hood agreed to continue bail until February 19 at the High Court in Kilmarnock.