Man jailed for seven years for attacking officers with meat cleaver

A man who attempted to murder an officer and endangered the life of another in a brutal meat cleaver attack has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

David Dowson, 26, previously pleaded guilty to attempting to murder PC Josh McCorry by striking him with the weapon outside his home in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, in June last year. Dowson, who has seven previous convictions, including...