Arthur Innes: “I could have been anyone. He wanted to kill someone”

A man who tried to kill a golfer with a chainsaw has been jailed for eight years.

Arthur Innes, 61, was at Caird Park Golf Club in Dundee in May when Joe Brown, whom he did not know, drove up beside him, leapt out and attacked him with a chainsaw. Brown, 45, was semi-naked.

“It was so surreal, just a normal day playing golf,” Mr Innes said. “I was just putting my shoes away in the car when he appeared out of nowhere and launched a chainsaw at my head.”

Mr Innes tried to dodge the attack and the chainsaw sliced into his arm. Brown then struck him on the head. Mr Innes ran away across the golf club car park while Brown “casually sauntered