Mustafa Faiz was left nursing stab wounds to his head, chest and stomach after being attacked in a barber shop he was planning to open with a pal.

Johnstone man Hassan Kaya was said to have stabbed Faiz with a pair of scissors at the store.

And the Houston Road man is now behind bars after being convicted of the life-threatening triple stabbing.

Meanwhile, Renfrew resident and co-accused Bilal Uruk – who owns a barber shop opposite the one where Faiz was attacked – walked free.

Faiz relived the attack – which took place at the shop in Paisley – while giving evidence against the pair at the town’s sheriff court this month.

The 33-year-old, who also owned a barber shop in the town’s Moss Street that he has since sold, said he was decorating the Causeyside Street unit on September 7, 2012.

And, while he was hanging wallpaper, an irate Kaya and Uruk arrived and a fight broke out, leaving him with three stab wounds.

He said: “I was going to open a shop there – a barber shop.

“We were in the shop the whole day. We were putting up wallpaper.

“Bilal came and he was shouting.” Faiz, a self-employed driver, said he held the door shut to keep Uruk and Kaya – who are both Turkish – out of the store.

He said: “I was holding the door, he was shouting trying to get in – he was shouting in an angry voice.

“He was shouting and swearing, telling me, ‘you can’t open a shop here’.” Uruk and Kaya managed to gain entry to the shop and started fighting with Faiz.

He became embroiled in a punch-up with Uruk and, while he tried to fight off the 44-year-old, Kaya started attacking him from behind.

Faiz was so caught up by the melee he only noticed Kaya had plunged a blade into him three times when they had fled the scene.

He said: “I tried to push both of them out of the shop.

“They ran away and then I felt the blood run down my neck.

“I could feel something at my neck and when I put my hand there it was covered in blood.

“There was a big hole and I started panicking.” Faiz phoned an ambulance and was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hopsital, where he was treated by Dr Ewan McKenzie in Accident and Emergency.

McKenzie, who has worked at hospitals in Scotland, England, Ireland, Uganda and New Zealand, described the injuries Faiz had when he examined him.

The doctor – who also spent 18 months teaching medical students at Manchester University – said Faiz had been stabbed in the back of the head, below his belly button and on the left side of his chest.

And he said they were worried about the injuries he had sustained, which could have been life-threatening.

The jury of eight men and seven women found 36-year-old Kaya guilty of the triple stabbing by majority, and he was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing later this month.

Uruk, of Renfrew’s Paisley Road, walked free during the trial when Amanda Gallagher, prosecuting, dropped the charge against him.