Son knifed dad after council tax bill row

By Andrea McCallum

A SON slashed his frail dad on the neck with a knife after an argument over a council tax bill.

Charles Drummond, 50, was eating dinner with his father James at the Edinburgh home they shared when he launched into a stinging verbal attack.

He grabbed the knife he had been eating his dinner with and thumped his pensioner dad in the neck.

The 78 year-old father was left with a ‘V’ shaped scar and required eight stitches.