Sentence on Millar was deferred at the High Court in Glasgow
A man who stabbed his victim in the neck with a 10in knife has been convicted of attempted murder.
Ross Millar, 23, attacked Scott McNeill after the 39-year-old knocked on his door in Glasgow's Maryhill area in the early hours of 1 January 2010.
Mr McNeill had earlier asked Millar to leave his ex-girlfriend's home.
He knocked on Millar's door to ask him not to return when he was stabbed. Sentence on Millar was deferred at the High Court in Glasgow.
The court heard how Mr McNeill received a phone call from his former girlfriend in the early hours of 1 January.
Michelle Golding asked him to come to her flat in Glenavon Road, Glasgow, and help her to remove neighbours Millar and his father from her home.
Mr McNeill did so and minutes later left the flat himself. On his way home he called in at the Millar's flat and knocked on the door to ask them not to return to Ms Golding's flat.
Vital organs
Millar answered the door with a large knife in his hand and plunged it into Mr McNeill's neck.
Ms Golding raised the alarm after Mr McNeill managed to get back to her flat.
The court was told that the blade went into the left-hand side of his neck and ended up in his right lung, missing every vital organ and blood vessel on the way.
Doctors who treated Mr McNeill, from Glasgow, were amazed that he survived the attack.
He spent three days in hospital before being released.
Judge Lord Matthews deferred sentence until next month for background reports and an assessment of the danger Millar poses to the public.
