Andrea McDermott was left with life-changing facial injuries and PTSD after being attacked by neighbour John Hughes. The 63-year-old thug was jailed for 11 years after a judge compared the horror incident to a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
A Lanarkshire mum-of-four who was attacked by an axe-wielding brute remembers her five-year-old daughter begging: "Don’t hit my mum" before blacking out.
READ MORE: Glasgow tour guide is ‘luckiest man alive’ after surviving fall that broke spine in six places Andrea had been out shopping with the youngster when she decided to visit her older daughter at her home on Old Edinburgh Road last September. After arriving at the home, she was confronted by upstairs neighbour Hughes who had been cutting the grass.
The youngster had fled during the attack but met her older sister who was returning home to meet them. The pair found the mum on her hands and knees on the bloodstained grass.Emergency crews caught Hughes, who was still at the scene, trying to clean the axe, which had Andrea’s hair on it. She suffered multiple facial and scalp wounds, which had ripped the skin, exposing the bone, as well as several skull fractures, a brain bleed and fractures of the upper and lower jaw.
Hughes pled guilty to charges of assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement, permanent impairment and danger to life and attempted murder at the High Court in Glasgow in September this year. Prosecutor Naomei Warner said Andrea’s older daughter had reported Hughes to police on numerous occasions.
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