Two males who attacked a Wishaw dad internet hosting a teenage birthday celebration have been ordered to pay him compensation.
Hamilton Sheriff Court docket heard that Brian Wands and Stephen Cowan turned up on the bash after listening to Wands’ daughter had been harm throughout a combat.
A livid Cowan requested: "Who’s the dad"? and when his sufferer recognized himself, Cowan headbutted him.
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The social gathering host was then punched and kicked by each males and suffered accidents that meant he couldn’t work for an prolonged interval.
Wands, 40, of Ferguson Crescent, Newmains, and 56-year-old Cowan, of Cheviot Crescent, Wishaw, had been discovered responsible by a jury of assaulting the person to his extreme harm and everlasting disfigurement.
The assault occurred at an tackle in Wishaw on February 1, 2020.
Sentencing the pair this week, Sheriff Ray Small mentioned: “It doesn’t matter what you consider the sufferer holding a celebration and permitting kids to get drunk.
“It’s not in opposition to the legislation and it occurs day in, day trip.
“He didn't deserve this.
“He was off work for some appreciable time with accidents to his head and again, and is left with scarring.”
The sheriff wasn’t impressed by the boys’s declare they went to the home on a “rescue mission” after Wands’ daughter was harm.
He said: “Little doubt this began due to the women combating.
“Nonetheless, Mrs Wands had already been there to rescue her daughter.
“Reasonably than a rescue mission, it’s much more doubtless that you just had been on a revenge mission as a result of Mrs Wands mentioned she had been disrespected by the sufferer.
“You went to kind it out.”
Defence brokers Stephen MacBride and Vincent McGovern conceded each males have prison information, however identified they haven't been in bother in recent times other than this incident.
They urged the Sheriff to impose community-based sentences somewhat than jail.
Mr McGovern admitted that Cowan had “bought concerned in a state of affairs and unhealthy decisions had been made”.
Sheriff Small mentioned he wouldn’t impose jail sentences as each males have accountable jobs and had stayed out of bother for a while previous to this.
Every was positioned underneath supervision for 18 months and should perform 200 hours of unpaid group work.
Cowan was ordered to pay the assault sufferer £1000 compensation whereas Wands should pay £750.
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