Docherty shouted, 'Die' as he rained multiple blows with a baseball bat down on the head of his victim, who was left with permanent brain damage following the brutal attack shortly before Christmas in 1998. Court proceedings have prevented the publication of Docherty's police mugshot and details of his two-decade-old criminal record until now. The nine-year sentence handed out to him at the High Court in Glasgow on Monday - a week after his 38th birthday - for causing the deaths of three friends in a high-speed crash on the M8 brought to an end all live cases against him.
We can now reveal that his first conviction came in 2000 for the attempted murder of the teenager. Docherty was one of five who stood trial at the High Court in Edinburgh at the turn of the century, four of whom were found guilty by a jury, after inflicting life-threatening injuries on the youth. : Following the vicious attack, Docherty was said to have turned to a companion who had earlier struck the victim with a golf club, shook hands and said: ''Well done.
” The victim was left permanently impaired after being chased and battered by the gang and Docherty was sentenced to five years detention. His three accomplices were each sentenced to seven years for the brutal assault. A report from the sentencing hearing said that the sickening incident followed earlier trouble as rival groups from different parts of Larkfield ‘spent their evening roaming the streets, drinking cider and vodka’.
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