A man is being treated for stab wounds after being attacked by two men in a Scots park.
16.08.2022 - 06:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Notorious underworld hitman Ricardo Blanco is back behind bars for attempting to behead a man in a French city. The Glasgow assassin - nicknamed The Mad Spaniard - attacked his victim with a sabre which caused his jaw to split in two, sliced his ear and left him with a 20cm gash from his temple to his neck.
Blanco, 61, is now languishing in prison after being sentenced to 22 years for the attack on his 43-year-old victim who is believed to have been the son of his girlfriend at the time.
A French prison source said: "Blanco just can't stay out of trouble however hard he tries. He went straight for a short time after he was released from prison in Scotland but it doesn't take long for his violent nature to take over what any sense he has.
"His victim was in surgery for over three hours while surgeons repaired the laceration which could have decapitated him. It took 40 stitches to close it up."
The source added: "Blanco had a fight with his victim who had asked Blanco to stop harassing his step-father. Blanco returned later with the sabre and attacked the man. In court he claimed it was self-defence when he was surrounded by four men who demanded cocaine who led him down a dead-end lane. He said he was frightened he was going to be killed so he defended himself. The court did not agree with his version."
Blanco carried out the attack in 2011 but wasn't put on trial until 2014 in Perpignan Criminal Court. And he was back in court in 2017 after he attacked a prisoner with a fork when he became enraged he couldn't recover contraband cannabis from his cell window.
The victim told the court: "He was yo-yoing by the window to recover cannabis. I had a roll, I tried to do two. And the yo-yo came back empty. It drove him crazy."
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