A party-goer who slashed a fellow guest with scissors is getting a chance to show he can behave better.
Jordan McNab has a history of violent offending and was jailed for four-and-a-half years at the High Court in Glasgow for serious assault.
The 26-year-old appeared from custody at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week.
He admitted slashing a man with scissors outside a house in Hamlet, East Kilbride, on May 9 last year.
McNab also admitted striking a woman on the face and biting another man's thumb.
Abby Seal, prosecuting, said the party lasted into the early hours and around 5.20am various individuals were in the back garden.
McNab was seen talking to the woman before striking her on the face, causing her to fall.
The fiscal said that altercation followed and when a party-goer put his hand against the accused's face he was bitten on the thumb.
McNab made his way to nearby Bosworth Road where he was seen taking scissors out of a rucksack.
The witnesses panicked and made their way back to the house, except one man. The accused struck him on the torso with the scissors.
Police arrived and the victim was taken to Hairmyres Hospital where a superficial wound on his abdomen was glued.
Previously, McNab was jailed at the High Court for attacking a 48-year-old man at the victim's East Kilbride home.
He and two others entered the property via an insecure window in the early hours.
They punched and kicked the householder and hit him with a baseball bat and a piece of wood.
He suffered a collapsed lung and a fractured rib, and could have died without medical treatment.
Referring to the latest charges, defence agent Matthew McGovern told the court: "He knows he was in the wrong. It's his lack of consequential thinking that is the fault here.
"He is ashamed and disgusted by his behaviour and recognises the impact it has on other people."
McNab is due to complete another prison sentence soon and Sheriff Andrew McIntyre continued the current case until September to see if he can behave himself when he is released.
The sheriff told him: "You have a chance to show you can keep out of trouble.
"If you come back here and nothing has gone wrong, my view would be to place you on a community payback order."
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