Two males have been jailed after attacking a college lecturer at a Scottish music competition and leaving him completely blind in a single eye, the BBC stories.
Patrick Kerr, 33, and Simon Tierney, 38, have 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 Competition at Scone Palace in July 2023.
Grant, who was attending the competition along with his household, didn’t personally know Kerr or Tierney however had engaged briefly and “well mannered” 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 competition’s safety intervened to cease the assault, however the sufferer sustained critical accidents, together with six damaged enamel, the everlasting lack of imaginative and prescient in his proper eye and in depth 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 damage and everlasting disfigurement. Upon sentencing, the decide decried their actions as a “brutal, cowardly alcohol-fueled assault on a weak sufferer.” Each Kerr and Tierney will probably be supervised for 2 years after their launch and are banned indefinitely from contacting the sufferer.
