A dad who survived a horror murder bid in Glasgow city centre has returned to the Christmas markets for the first time since his attack 12 years ago. Stephen Tierney, 42, was stabbed eight times - including in the chest and neck - after a Christmas night out on December 16, 2012. He had fallen asleep at the entrance to Queen Street Station and woke up to find his attackers, Jamie McInally and his girlfriend Caitlin Caskie, standing over him.
The dad-of-three jumped up before he was knifed several times. Stephen has told how he managed to escape the pair - whom he had never met before - after fleeing to nearby George Square. Revellers dialled 999 for Stephen. It was later found the blows had narrowly missed his major organs. However, Stephen says it was the mental injuries that took the longest to heal from, and that he still suffers from PTSD 12 years on. Speaking to our sister title, Glasgow Live, he said: 'The attack broke me in so many ways. I remember being in hospital thinking how have I survived this. I don't know how I walked away. I was lying in the hospital bed in tears because my son, Stefan, was a year old at the time and I wanted to get back to him. 'The scary thing is the attack was completely random and at the time I didn't know I'd even been stabbed. It was only when I got away into George Square and the shock wore off that I realised I was covered in blood.' Stephen, from Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, suffered severe nerve damage to his right shoulder with all his nerve endings severed. He also had wounds in his chest, near his kidneys and his legs. He said: 'It turned my entire life upside down. I went from being a happy father to being full of anger and aggressive and I didn't know why because that's not who I am. I was getting agitated and my thought process wasn't right. I was never a big drinker but I started going out every weekend and putting myself in bad situations. I was trying to forget and numb the pai