Killer who chewed off ear jailed

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A Polish killer who came to Scotland while still on licence has been jailed for more than five years for attacks on two men in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire.

Marcin Ignatowicz assaulted Kamil Chentkiewicz and Krysztof Nowak in two separate incidents last July.

The High Court in Glasgow heard that the 32-year-old chewed off part of one of his victim's ears.

Ignatowicz previously served eight years in Poland for beating a woman and leaving her to die in a warehouse.

At an earlier hearing he admitted charges of assault, abduction and attempting to extort money.

The court heard that Ignatowicz and an accomplice attacked the first victim, Mr Chentkiewicz, with a hammer at his home in Northburn Avenue, Airdrie, on 2 July 2008.

They then bundled him into a car and drove him towards Cumbernauld.

Before they finally released him in Coatbridge, Ignatowicz bit off a piece of the man's left ear.

'Crying and begging'

The second victim, Mr Nowak, was lured out of his home in the same street in Airdrie on 24 July last year.

Ignatowicz and another man drove him to a quarry in Airdrie and beat him up.

The court heard Mr Nowak was "crying and begging them to stop".

Ignatowicz told his victim: "You should be happy that I have not bitten your ear off as that is my trait."

For days afterwards, Ignatowicz made a series of threatening phone calls to the man claiming he would kill him.

Ignatowicz was arrested at Glasgow Sheriff Court last August after Mr Nowak went to police.

Before sentencing, judge Lord Bracadale was told that in October 1998 Ignatowicz had been found guilty by a Polish court of "acting with the intention of possible murder."

Deportation order

Advocate depute Johanna Cherry said the crime was roughly equivalent to the Scottish offence of culpable homicide.

Ignatowicz, who was engaged to be married at the time, had met another woman in a bar and took her to a nearby warehouse.

She laughed at him when he was unable to have sex with her and he exploded in fury, kicking her all over her head and body.

Ignatowicz fled, leaving the woman alone in freezing temperatures, and she choked to death on her own blood.

He served just over eight years before he was released on licence and came to Scotland.

Lord Bracadale recommend that Ignatowicz should be deported after his release from prison.