A former soldier was jailed for nine years on Tuesday after trying to murder a man in a Samurai sword attack.
Daniel Daly, 24, left victim Paul McDonnell, 33, scarred on the face and with part of a finger missing after the street assault with the "fearsome weapon" that was caught on CCTV.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Daly had served in Iraq and Northern Ireland with the Army but was discharged after he was the victim of an earlier assault.
Mr McDonnell had told an earlier trial that he was carrying a wooden clothespole or stretcher when a white van came to a halt further down the street.
He said a man emerged from the van carrying a sword and they ran towards each other.
He said: "I got in with the wooden stretcher first and then got hit on the face and on my hands. I lost a fingertip on my right hand. When I realised the extent of my injuries I fled. Seconds later I looked in the street light and my face was almost hanging off."
Daly, formerly of Reid Street, Burnbank, Hamilton, had earlier denied attempting to murder Mr McDonnell on March 16 this year in the Lanarkshire town's Milton Terrace.
But he was found guilty after a trial of the murder bid by striking him on the head and body with a sword to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment and to the danger of his life.
Defence counsel Paul McBride QC said: "This is a man who has given of himself in the service of his country."
Mr McBride added that the victim had discharged himself from hospital after the attack and "seems untroubled by what happened to him".
Sentencing, Lady Stacey told Daly: "I accept you have served your country in Northern Ireland and in Iraq and been decorated for that. I also accept that you have found the transition back to civilian life difficult.
"However, I have to have regard to law and order. You went out in the middle of the night armed with a sword to confront Mr McDonnell with whom you had issues. That behaviour is completely unacceptable.
"You have been found guilty by the jury of an attempted murder that took place in a public street with a lethal weapon."
