Pair jailed for attempted murder in Larbert flat

Liam Mathewson and Connor Swanston were jailed at the High Court in Edinburgh

Two men who repeatedly stabbed a man at a flat in Larbert have been jailed for attempted murder.

Liam Mathewson and Connor Swanston were armed with a knife and screwdriver when they carried out the attack on Robert Swan.

Mr Swan sustained multiple stab wounds and had to be airlifted to hospital.

Mathewson, 23, and Swanston, 24, were jailed for 10 years and seven years respectively.

Judge Lord Mulholland told the pair that if it was not for the skill of the paramedics they would have been facing a murder charge.

Mr Swan sustained 20 wounds to his chest, back, head and arms during the attack on him at the flat.

Mathewson and another accomplice, Dillon Martin, also carried out a racially aggravated assault and robbery on a food delivery worker.

Martin, 25, was jailed for four years.

Defence counsel Sean Templeton, for Mathewson, said he had "a difficult beginning in life" and was in and out of the care system.

Defence solicitor advocate George Pollock, for Swantson, said: "This will be the first custodial sentence imposed upon him."