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A father stabbed his 15-year-old son through the heart in a row over a bacon sandwich.

John Lennox, 49, has been jailed for eight years after knifing his son Brendon at their family home in Glasgow when he wasn't fed first.

After stabbing the boy twice, Lennox then calmly started to repair the television damaged during the attack.

Giving evidence at the High Court in Glasgow, his son, Brendan said: “I got stabbed twice.”

When asked by prosecutor Stephen McCloy: “Who did it?, he replied: “My dad. We fought and then I got stabbed.”

Asked what instigated the stabbing, he said: “It was probably over the bacon.”

The court then heard that his mother, Davina, was making bacon rolls for her son, Lennox and their guests before the feud kicked off.

Brendon started shouting and swearing when he was not given the first bacon roll, he then stormed out and slammed the door which hit his mother, reports the Daily Record.

When he returned, he got into a fight with his father who produced a knife and stabbed his son twice, once through his heart.

The jury heard that after stabbing his son, Lennox said: “How did that feel.”

When his mother saw the blood she screamed at Lennox: “You’ve stabbed our boy in the heart. We nearly lost him.”

Lennox denied stabbing his son and claimed that he may have either stabbed himself or been stabbed by one of the other people in the house that night.