The victim of the Belfast knife attack was previously drugged and torched by a gang leader in 2001.
Stephen Ogilvie, 44, is fighting for his life in hospital after sustaining knife wounds to his face, neck and back during the attack on Monday night.
He was tragically the victim of another attack in 2001 in which drug dealer David McLeave, then 21, gave Mr Ogilvie the date rape drug GBH then stripped him, poured aftershave over him and torched him at a flat in Livingston.
Vulnerable Mr Ogilivie, who is understood to have learning difficulties, later woke up to find his body on fire, reports the Daily Record.
The ordeal, which was filmed by his torturers, left Mr Ogilvie feeling “terrified,” as he told a court at the time: “My nerves are shattered.”
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