A TROUBLED man who stabbed two men following a run-in at a pub is to be detained indefinitely in a special hospital.

Schizophrenic Hayden Anderson, 27, plunged a kitchen knife into Lee Conway and Andrew Spencer after a fight broke out between two groups on a New Milton street.

Jurors heard Dr Phil Hyde had to perform life-saving surgery by the roadside after Mr Conway suffered a punctured lung in the street brawl.

The doctor, working for the Basics (British Association for Immediate Care) charity service, was called to the scene by paramedics. He released air trapped in Mr Conway’s chest, before the two victims were rushed to Southampton General Hospital for further treatment.

Prosecutor Richard Withey said the pair were walking to a convenience store after watching two televised Premier League soccer matches at the Old Barn pub where there was “a run-in” between the two groups.

Mr Conway told jurors how he had stepped round the fight when he turned round and saw Anderson aggressively walking towards him.

“I hit him and he hit me at the same time. I only hit him because of the way he walked towards me.

“He fell over and at first I thought he had punched me but within seconds I realised blood was coming through my shirt,” he said.

“I walked over to the other side of the road and lent against a sign, then a couple of girls came over.

“They could see blood coming through my shirt.”

Mr Conway said one of them applied a scarf tightly to his chest, before a doctor and an ambulance arrived on the scene.

Psychiatrist Dr David Morton said Anderson – who is being treated at Ravenswood Hospital, near Fareham – had been seeing him since 2005.

He told the court Anderson had complex mental health difficulties including severe schizophrenia, complicated by a personality disorder and serious substance misuse, and would present a high risk of committing further offences, including violent ones, if he was at large.

Anderson, of no fixed abode but formerly of the New Forest, was convicted of two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

He did not give evidence at his trial at Southampton Crown Court, which heard he had 21 previous convictions for 72 offences beginning with a burglary in 1995.

They included assault and motoring offences.

Ordering Anderson to be detained at the hospital indefinitely, Judge Derwin Hope told him: “You were handed a lethal kitchen knife and used it to stab both victims with almost fatal results.

“If the medical treatment had not been so good, one or both of your victims could have died.”