TWO serious assault accused are said to have severely injured a man after attacking him with an axe in Greenock.

Steven McKee and Barry Malloy appeared for a petition hearing in private at the town's sheriff court facing the single charge.

The pair allegedly assaulted another male by repeatedly striking him on the head and body with an axe, table and picture frame all to his severe injury.

The alleged attack is said to have been carried out within a flat in Roxburgh Street on May 18 this year.

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McKee, 43, is said to have committed the alleged offence whilst subject to an anti-social behaviour order imposed in 2018, and he was also on a bail order granted in March of this year.

Malloy, 21, was also on bail, granted in February 2023, at the time of the alleged offence.

Sheriff Murdoch MacTaggart remanded McKee, of Newton Street, in custody while Malloy, of South Street, was released on bail after they both made no plea through their solicitor.

A date for the next calling of the case is to be confirmed.