A DUNFERMLINE man shouted: "You stabbed me, you b*****d!" after being attacked by a stranger.

Paul Sweeney, 44, a project manager who works in Glasgow, was one of four people knifed by a mentally ill man in the city last year.

He was walking to his car in the Gorbals area on the evening of March 15, 2016 when Edward Coyle, 50, came at him "with some purpose" and knifed him in the chest.

At the sentencing last week, the High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Sweeney had shouted: "You stabbed me, you b*****d!" when he was attacked.

Coyle also attacked a supermarket worker, a student and a cleaner across a three day period in Glasgow and a judge ordered him to be detained at a high security psychiatric institution.

He was convicted of attempting to murder Mr Sweeney and Margaret Campbell, 58, who was stabbed six times as she walked to her cleaning job in the Gorbals in the early hours.

She suffered a punctured lung and was off work for eight months.

Coyle was also found guilty of assaulting Alberto Sanchez, 29 – he was left standing "in a puddle of blood" after being stabbed as he headed to work in a supermarket in the Gorbals – and student Fiona Robertson, 22, near the Merchant City.

She fought him off but was left with holes in her clothes.

Mr Sanchez, Ms Robertson and Mr Sweeney were all stabbed on March 15.

Mrs Campbell was knifed on March 17. All four were strangers to Coyle.

The court was told that he suffers from a serious mental illness and needs specialist medical care at the State Hospital in Carstairs.

A consultant psychiatrist, Dr Prathima Apurva, said there would be a risk of him attacking other people if he were sent to a mainstream prison.

Lord Armstrong told Coyle that sending him to Carstairs was the most appropriate sentence available to him.

He added: “You have been convicted of a number of serious crimes. I accept the information which been set out in the reports and the oral evidence of Doctor Apurva.

“It is my conclusion that I should impose a restriction order as well as compulsion order.”

Coyle, of Gorbals, had denied all wrongdoing but was convicted of two counts of attempted murder and two of assault earlier this year at the High Court in Glasgow.

The judge had ordered him held at Carstairs whilst doctors assessed his health.

At last week's sentencing, Dr Apurva said that Coyle still posed a risk to public safety and defence advocate Paul Nelson told the court that it would be in his client’s best interests if he were sent to Carstairs.

Lord Armstrong agreed and told Coyle: “It is appropriate that you continue to be held and treated in the institution that you are currently in.”

He passed an order compelling Coyle to receive medical treatment for his health and passed a separate order which compels him to be detained at the psychiatric mental health institution.