Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Train Attack in Scotland

A 48-year-old man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempting to murder one passenger and seriously assaulting another during a violent bottle attack on a crowded train in Scotland last year.

Thomas Craig, from Barrhead in Renfrewshire, carried out the assault on February 16, 2024, aboard a service from Glasgow Queen Street to Perth. The incident began when Craig, who had consumed alcohol for several hours and taken cocaine, struck up a conversation with two men in their early twenties seated nearby. After hurling an insult at one of them, identified as Aaron Nelson, 22, Craig suddenly leaped from his seat and struck Nelson twice over the head with a glass bottle. Nelson fled down the carriage, but Craig pursued him, continuing to batter him until the bottle shattered, leaving him with the jagged neck in hand.

When Glenn Lennon, 23, Nelson's friend, intervened to assist, Craig turned on him, landing punches before stabbing him twice in the chest with the broken bottle. The attack left Lennon with life-threatening injuries, including a wound near his heart, a punctured lung, a severed artery, and the loss of about 40 percent of his blood. He required intensive care...