A teenager has been found guilty of attempting to murder his school friend in an Aberdeen play park.
Scott Bruce, 18, repeatedly stabbed Ryan Stewart, also 18, after on argument broke out on November 12 last year.
Following a row earlier in the day, Bruce called Mr Stewart and taunted him on the phone by saying, “Get down to the park and see what's going to happen to you”.
By the time Mr Stewart and his friends turned up at the children's park in the Persley area of Aberdeen, hundreds of youths had congregated.
Minutes later, Bruce knifed his school friend in the chest in a brutal attack which nearly killed him.
The High Court in Aberdeen heard how the teenager could have died had he not had major surgery because he was stabbed repeatedly near the heart.
Today a jury took two-and-a-half hours to find him guilty of attempted murder by a majority verdict before hearing a shocking list of his previous violent convictions.
During the trial, Mr Stewart said he had no idea his friend would stab him and thought it would just be a fist fight over a motorbike.
He said: “I thought it was going to be a rumble, just a fight. The next thing I know I was being punched.
"It felt like a cement mixer pumping round my body. I pulled up my jumper and there was lots of blood spurting out.
"He was jumping about like a boxer. I put my head down and when I put it back up that was it all over because I was stabbed."
The teenager told the court he struggled to breathe after the alleged attack. He said he lifted his T-shirt and then saw stab wounds on his chest and stomach.
Mr Stewart told the court: "When I jumped up I could see something silver in his hand, like a three inch knife."
Doctors found four stab wounds, two near his heart, one beside his lung and one in his abdomen.
In October 2007, Bruce was convicted of an assault to injury charge. Weeks later, he was found guilty of an assault to severe injury at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
On May 9 last year, the teenager was convicted of another assault to injury charge and was then sentenced to 20 months in a young offenders’ institution for charges of attempted theft in December.
Because of his previous convictions, Lord Woolman ordered reports and a risk assessment before sentencing.
Sentence was deferred until November 30 at the High Court in Edinburgh. Bruce was remanded in custody.
Last updated: 02 November 2009, 17:22
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