Soldier jailed for attack on friends caught with wife
A SOLDIER who attacked two friends with a meat cleaver and a knife after catching them "cavorting" with his wife has been jailed for 27 months.
Dean Johnston, 22, struck his Army colleague Jai Kerr with a knife and hit another man on the head with the meat cleaver.
Johnston, a Royal Scots Borderer, lashed out at the pair after walking into his living room to find them with his wife Natalie.
Mr Kerr, 21, who served with Johnston in Afghanistan, was naked and his friend Jamie Dickson, 20, was wearing only boxer shorts. Johnston punched Mr Dickson in the face then chased the pair while brandishing the weapons.
He pled guilty to severely injuring Mr Dickson and assaulting Mr Kerr earlier this year.
He appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced.
Solicitor David Blair-Wilson, defending, said Johnston was keen to stay in the Army.
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