6 years for knife attack on Asian teenager

Published on Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:28

A WOMAN who told an Asian teenager "you're all terrorists" and stabbed him in an unprovoked attack was jailed for six years yesterday.

Mary McKay, 32, was also given an extended sentence and will be supervised under licence for two years after her release.

She walked up to Tarik Husan at a Glasgow bus stop and knifed him repeatedly in the chest and arm. She later told police: "I just stabbed a guy with the same colour of skin as a terrorist."

Mr Husan, 17, had arrived in Scotland only a short time before he was attacked by McKay in Tollcross Road on the eve of the anniversary of the 11 September attacks.

McKay had previously admitted attempting to murder Mr Husan.

At the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday, the judge, Lord Menzies, said: "It seems to me this was a completely unprovoked attack on an unarmed stranger in the public street without any explainable motive."

After the attack, McKay, who had taken cocaine, claimed she had planned to stab her mother but had missed the bus and stabbed Mr Husan instead.