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Two receive nine-year sentences for T in the Park attack

Glasgow-area men face lengthy jail time after stabbing 23-year-old Mark Morrison 11 times.

16 June 2009 18:56 GMT

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Two receive nine-year sentences for T in the Park attack

Two men who stabbed a bank worker at last year's T in the Park have each been jailed for nine years.

John Tiffoney and Robert Kidd were found guilty of attempting to murder 23-year-old Mark Morrison at the festival in July 2008 by plunging a camping knife into his back 11 times.

During the trial at Dunfermline High Court, jurors were shown pictures of Mr Morrison's injuries. He survived but suffered a permanent facial scar.

The jury found Kidd, 25, unemployed, from Barrhead, and Tiffoney, also 25, a labourer, from Crookston, guilty of attempted murder.

The pair had criminal records for serious assault and, in Tiffoney's case for culpable homicide.

Judge Lord Woolman told them they had been found guilty of "a disgraceful series of crimes".

Local police saluted the verdicts. Craig Suttie, chief superintendent from Tayside Police, said: "This was a vicious and unprovoked attack on a man (and) … we hope that the decision at court today and the subsequent sentence will
provide a degree of closure for Mr Morrison."

The attempted murder was the first ever at the open-air festival at Balado, Perth and Kinross.

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