A TEENAGER plunged a broken bottle into a youth's neck during a gang fight, a court was told.
Alexander McLeod, 18, had his jugular vein and vagus nerve severed and would have bled to death if paramedics had not managed to get him to hospital within five minutes, the High Court in Glasgow heard.
Dr Alastair Brown, prosecuting, said trouble flared between gangs from Hillington and Penilee around 9pm at Hillington Quadrant.
Mr McLeod went to see what was happening as the two groups clashed.
But Paul Fisher, 17, walked up to him and swing a punch at his neck while holding a broken bottle.
Dr Brown said: "As a result of the blood loss he suffered a stroke. He has a large scar on his neck and his right side is affected by the stroke."
Fisher, now of Ben Lawers Drive, Paisley, admitted striking Mr McLeod to the danger of his life last September 8 .
Fisher also pleaded guilty to assaulting Barry Corr on November 11, 2005 and a 15-year-old boy last June 3, both in Paisley Road West.
Sentence was deferred.
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