Police have welcomed the sentencing of a thug who was locked up for 12 years for horrific knife attacks on two men.
The Lennox Herald reported last week how Barry Rainey was locked up for the brutal assaults at a flat in Renton in March this year.
The High Court in Glasgow was told how the 30-year-old from Dumbarton had a schedule of previous convictions stretching back to the age of 15.
And this week, Detective Inspector Ogilvie Ross spoke out about the sentencing.
He said: “I am encouraged at how seriously the courts have dealt with someone who has shown such a high level of violence.
“This cannot be tolerated in our communities. We will robustly investigate those who engage in such serious activity to protect the public.”
Rainey previously served time behind bars from 2013 for supplying ecstasy which killed teenager Demi Campbell at a house party in Alexandria and denied his latest crimes.
But he was convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
Rainey was found guilty of assaulting one of his victims to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.
And jurors found he had also attacked the other man to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment. Sentencing him, Lord Mulholland added: “This was not an isolated act of violence. You are a man of violence.”
Rainey’s QC Ian Duguid quizzed one of the victims asking why he thought it had happened with the man replying: “Could be mistaken identity. I don’t know.”
Jurors heard claims Rainey had gone to the flat to sell drugs and had armed himself for protection.
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