'Entrepreneur' jailed for stab attack

Published on Wednesday 24 September 2008 01:03

A YOUNG businessman was jailed for seven-and-a-half years yesterday for knife attacks.

Sher Khan, 20, assaulted a man and a woman at a bookmakers shop in Glasgow on 28 April last year after being freed on bail a month before.

A judge told Khan at the High Court in Edinburgh: "You perpetrated quite considerable violence against them with a knife."

But Lord Brailsford added that he accepted the attacker, who had a university place to study business, had "considerable entrepreneurial skills".

The judge told Khan: "You are plainly a person of some considerable intelligence."

Khan, of Rutherglen, Glasgow, was earlier convicted of attempting to murder Gerald Byrne outside a branch of Ladbrokes. He also assaulted Deborah Tait at the bookmakers.