Two males have been jailed after attacking a college lecturer at a Scottish music pageant and leaving him completely blind in a single eye, the BBC reviews.
Patrick Kerr, 33, and Simon Tierney, 38, had been sentenced on the Excessive Courtroom in Glasgow to phrases of five-and-a-half and four-and-a-half years in jail, respectively. The pair assaulted the sufferer, 53-year-old Antonio Grant, on the Rewind Pageant at Scone Palace in July 2023.
Grant, who was attending the pageant together with his household, didn’t personally know Kerr or Tierney however had engaged briefly and “polite” dialog with them earlier that day. The assault reportedly occurred after Grant declined Tierney’s provide of a chip. The previous was punched within the head and knocked to the bottom, then repeatedly kicked and punched by each assailants.
The pageant’s safety intervened to cease the assault, however the sufferer sustained severe accidents, together with six damaged tooth, the everlasting lack of imaginative and prescient in his proper eye and intensive facial trauma that required the insertion of a metallic plate into his jaw.
Each males admitted to the assault and pleaded responsible to inflicting extreme harm and everlasting disfigurement. Upon sentencing, the decide decried their actions as a “brutal, cowardly alcohol-fueled attack on a vulnerable victim.” Each Kerr and Tierney will likely be supervised for 2 years after their launch and are banned indefinitely from contacting the sufferer.
