Repeat offender teen is jailed over stabbing attack

A TEENAGE thug previously freed on bail five times went on to scar a man for life in an unprovoked stabbing.

- By Gordon Currie

Knife rampage... Thomas Mullen

Thomas Mullen had earlier been sent on an outdoors activities course after admitting possession of a so-called zombie knife.

Yesterday, the 19-year-old appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court and was jailed for 27 months.

Mullen admitted attacking his victim, a onetime friend, by stabbing him on the body to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement in November 2023.

The court heard he flew into a jealous rage and stabbed the innocent teenager after discovering his former girlfriend was in his company.

Sentencing him, Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith said: "It seems you attended, left and came back in a vehicle with two others. It was pre-planned and premeditated.

"You came back mob-handed."