The brother of two convicted killers has been jailed for seven years after trying to murder a key witness at their trial following a feud between two families.

Kris Malavin (26) struck James McGregor with his car before repeatedly driving over his fallen victim.

Mr McGregor was left in the middle of the road screaming in pain and suffered fractures to his pelvis, hip joint and leg and internal bleeding.

A judge told Malavin: "It is clear this assault has had a devastating effect on him physically and psychologically."

Lord Jones told Malavin that he had been assessed as posing a high risk of causing serious harm in future, although he accepted the car attack was "an isolated incident".

The judge said at the High Court in Edinburgh: "This was a very serious assault and it must be met with a custodial sentence."

He told Malavin that he would have faced an eight-year prison term but for his guilty plea.

Malavin had earlier admitted assaulting Mr McGregor (54) to his severe injury, permanent impairment and disfigurement and attempting to murder him at Glasgow's Maryhill Road on January 17 this year.

Malavin, formerly of Kenilworth Crescent, Bearsden, was driving a brother's partner to work at the time.