A former lumberjack who carried out a ‘horrific’ attack which left an 80-year-old man’s fingers hanging off has been jailed for six years.
Donald Sandilands - who is known as Donna and was called Miss Sandilands during proceedings - assaulted Alexander McTavish with the chainsaw and chased him with the lethal device as he desperately tried to escape.
The High Court in Dundee was told the 48-year-old - who was banned from ever approaching Mr McTavish or his partner Christine Devito - carried out the attack in a row over the sale of a tractor.
Solicitor Advocate Luke O’Curry, defending, told the court Sandilands suffered a severe industrial accident while working as a lumberjack in 2015.
Mr O’Curry told the court his client had lost the sight in one eye as a result and was also no longer able to regulate his reactions to certain difficult situations.
