A MAN who made headlines after he was jailed for trying to feed police horses his gammon roll is back behind bars for a horror knife attack.
Francis Kelly, 53, has been locked up for seven years for slashing a homeless man in Glasgow’s west end in May 2023.
The offence occurred in Great George Street near the city’s Hillhead.
Jurors at the High Court in Glasgow found him guilty of assaulting James McDonald to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life.
A claim that he also attempted to murder the man was deleted.
The incident is said to have been sparked after Mr McDonald had unwittingly been out begging at a spot in the west end Kelly claimed to use to try and get money.
The victim was scarred for life after being struck on the head with a blade.
As well as the jail-term, Kelly will also be supervised for a further three years on his release.
In 2013, Kelly was at the centre of a bizarre incident which ended up even featuring on the BBC’s Have I Got News For You show.
He had got himself arrested after he attempted to give police horses his roll while out in the city’s Pollokshaws Road.
Kelly was said to have become abusive when officers told him the animals were vegetarian and that the meat could be harmful to them.
Kelly had instead claimed he had been eating a sausage roll that day and one of the horses had tried to take the pastry when he pet it.
He told his trial: “That is what I was doing. It actually took the sausage roll out of my hand. I just let it.”
But, he ended up being convicted of a breach of the peace at Glasgow Justice of the Peace Court.
Kelly was fined £200, but, due to him already being in custody at the time, he was unable to pay and handed an alternative seven days in jail.
In 2022, Kelly was also guilty of threatening to burn down the Ashoka restaurant in the city’s Ashton Lane.
He was tackled by an off-duty policeman after he was spotted clutching a Jerry Can while making the remark.
Kelly was jailed for two years for an offence prosecutors at the time stated was like a scene from the movie Die Hard as “an officer stepped up to save the day”.