TWO men have been jailed after a complaint about a five-day house party turned violent.

Stephen Cairns was at his "wits' end" with the noise coming from the flat below him in Drumry.

The 50-year-old ended up hurt after a confrontation with a number of revellers there.

Cairns left, but returned along with 46-year-old Gary McInally, both armed with knives.

Cairns lunged at the householder before McInally stabbed another man in the neck, striking his jugular vein.

The duo were today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

McInally was locked up for seven-and-a-half-years after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

Cairns was jailed for three years and three months for a trio of assault charges.

Lord Matthews told them: "Custodial sentences are necessary as punishment to deter others from taking the law into their own hands."

Cairns had been living at his flat in Drumry for 27 years, when the householder moved in downstairs around 2018.

The court heard Cairns went on to regularly complain to the local housing association and police about the apparently constant noise from there.

He had been in touch again on the day of the crimes.

But, when the music continued, Cairns went to his neighbour's door.

He ended up punching the householder's friend before leaving the flat wounded himself.

The householder and the others soon heard banging at the door.

Cairns and McInally forced their way in and confronted the young men.

They initially had to dodge getting hit with knives.

Police were called and arrived to find McInally and the householder's friend in a scuffle.

Prosecutor Murdoch MacTaggart said: "While on the floor, McInally lashed out with the knife and struck him on the left side of the neck.

"Blood instantly sprayed from the wound."

Officers eventually managed to disarm the pair.

The man was rushed to hospital with medics stating his condition gave "grave cause for concern".

It was concluded he would have died without treatment.

The court heard Cairns was usually "a mild mannered man" whose life had apparently been made a "misery" by his neighbour.

Billy Lavelle, defending, added: "On this day he had been to the housing department to complain yet again.

"There had been a party going on non stop from the previous Saturday - this was the Thursday.

"It was going on with very loud noise with young people coming and going."

But, the lawyer said Cairns "fully accepted" what then happened.

McInally's advocate Jennifer Bain said he had never been in Cairns' flat before and "wished he could turn back time".