Mum stabbed friend in back with broken vodka bottle

A MUM lashed out with a broken vodka bottle, leaving a man just millimetres from death, a court heard.

Doctors found fragments of glass had lodged close to Kevin Ray's aorta, the main artery coming from the heart.

But a court heard yesterday that Mr Ray, 28, held no great grudge against Lisa Tytler.

Tytler, 25, who lives in Polton Drive, Lasswade, was accused of attempted murder after the March 25 incident.

At the High Court in Edinburgh, her guilty plea to a reduced charge of assaulting Mr Ray to the danger of his life was accepted.

Advocate depute Jane Farquharson, prosecuting, described how Tytler tried to intervene when Mr Ray and another man came to blows at a party in Mayfield.

Mr Ray and friends were drinking in his Westerhouses Avenue home when a scuffle broke out. The two men went out for a "square go" and Tytler followed with a bottle.

She approached the group which had surrounded the wresting men and stabbed Ray in the back.

Solicitor advocate Krista Johnston, defending, said Tytler remembered little of the incident. She described Mr Ray as a friend of Tytler.

Tytler, who was on bail at the time awaiting trial on charges of breach of the peace, assault and wasting police time, was remanded in custody pending sentence in Aberdeen next month.