A thug who left a man fighting for life in a pub brawl has been caged again - for trying to stab two police officers during an attack at his home.
Edward Crossan, 45, denied using a large kitchen knife to attack the officers, claiming it wasn't for chopping cops but was for cutting apples and pairs.
Crossan, who was jailed at the High Court in 2009 for stabbing a man through the heart, said he needed to slice the fruit into chunks so he can chew them, because he doesn't have many teeth.
But his attempts to get off with the assaults were fruitless, and on Thursday a jury convicted him of both charges he faced.
They found Crossan guilty, by majority, of trying to knife Police Constables Ronnie Watson and Hannah Cruickshank at his home in Renfrew, near Glasgow, on September 29 last year.
And, following the verdict, at Paisley Sheriff Court, Sheriff Bruce Erroch QC caged him for 18 months, backdated to the date he was first remanded in custody.
PC Watson, who has been a police officer for nine years, said he went into Crossan's home and saw him holding a knife.
The 48-year-old, who was left with a bruised arm and swollen knee, said he grabbed hold of Crossan's wrists and began struggling with him, fearing he would be stabbed in the neck.
He explained: "I was trying to hold his hands above his head to stop him stabbing me in the neck with the knife.
"I thought he was going to get me in the neck. I was scared. He was making a lot of grunting and growling noises."
He said PC Cruickshank, 28, was left "shaken", with "some scratches" on her arms because of the attack.
PC Cruickshank, who has five years police service, said: "The way I would describe it is a stabbing motion towards my head.
"It was just a bit terrifying to be honest. It was just a blur."
In 2009, Crossan was jailed for more than three-and-a-half years for plunging a blade into Allan MacAulay's chest, and leaving him fighting for life, in a pub brawl.
The court heard that Mr MacAulay would have bled to death, or his heart would have stopped beating, if he hadn't been operated on so quickly.
Crossan, 33, confronted Mr MacAulay at the Kind Man's pub, in Renfrew, after returning armed with the knife following a row.
Mr MacAulay threw a chair at Crossan, who lunged and stabbed him once on the left side of the chest, before fleeing the scene.
He admitted assaulting Mr MacAulay to the danger of his life on January 19, 2009.
Judge Lord Turnbull told him: "The account of the medical treatment which Mr MacAulay received makes it quite plain that you are very fortunate indeed that he did not die."
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