A BANK worker was stabbed 11 times as he went to the aid of a young female friend at the T in the Park music festival, a court heard yesterday.
Mark Morrison said he had been watching American rockers Rage Against The Machine's headline performance at the festival – attended by tens of thousands of people every year – and had returned to his tent with friends before he was attacked.
Mr M
orrison, 23, said that he had been looking at photographs on a digital camera with friends in his tent.
They heard an argument developing outside between another of their friends, Laura More, and a man.
Mr Morrison got out of the tent with another of his friends, Ashleigh McComb, who approached the male who had been arguing with Miss More and said: "Don't talk to her like that."
He said the man then spat on Miss McComb, and punched her on the head.
Mr Morrison said he then grabbed the alleged attacker, and a fight broke out.
Mr Morrison told the court: "The next thing I knew there was somebody on my back. I assumed it was his friend that was with him.
"I felt blows on my back several times. Then I felt myself struggling to breathe.
"I got up to try to get myself away. I thought I had been winded or at worst cracked a rib. I walked up by our tent and fell to my knees.
"The man followed me and kicked me to the side of my head and I remember him walking away from me.
"Two of my friends and someone I didn't know came over to see if I was OK.
"I didn't even know I had been stabbed until one of them shouted, 'He's been stabbed'."
Mr Morrison said he was taken to the festival's medical tent. He had a chest drain inserted as the stab wounds had punctured his lung.
He added: "If it had been left much longer I might not be here now."
The jury was shown pictures of Mr Morrison's injuries. They included six stab wounds on his back, three on his right side, one on the left side of his mouth and one on the right side of his head.
Mr Morrison told the court that he still had a scar on his face as a result of the alleged attack.
But he told the advocate depute, Maurice O'Carroll, that he could not identify who it was who attacked him.
Mr Morrison was giving evidence at the High Court in Dunfermline on the first day of the trial of two men who are accused of attempting to murder him by repeatedly kicking him to the head and body and repeatedly stabbing him on the body with a knife or similar instrument all to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment.
Robert Kidd, 24, from Barrhead, Glasgow, and John Tiffoney, 25, of Cardiff, pleaded not guilty to the charge.
The incident is alleged to have taken place at the festival at Balado, near Kinross, on 13 July last year. Kidd and Tiffoney further deny three assaults on females at the festival on the same date.
Kidd also denies committing a breach of the peace at his home in Barrhead on 15 August last year by brandishing a Samurai sword or similar at four police officers, threatening them with violence, climbing on to the roof of the house, refusing to come down and shouting and swearing.
The trial, before Lord Woolman, continues.
