A bungling Scots criminal who broke into a pair's flat was whacked over the top with a frying pan earlier than he sunk his tooth into their arms. Darren Gowran has been jailed for 2 years after forcing his means into the Stirling residence of Armand and Liga Mierina whereas they slept at round 1.30am on March 14.
Falkirk Sheriff Court docket was instructed that the door entry system to the block of contemporary flats was out of operation and entry to the widespread shut was insecure. The couple, aged 63 and 57, had been awoken by the sound of “loud kicking on the entrance door” of their Cowane Avenue residence.
Armand discovered Gowran within the hallway - holding Liga's purse - and confronted him earlier than a violent battle ensued which resulted within the would-be-thief smacking him within the face. Fiscal depute Smith stated: “On account of the accused struggling violently with Mr Mierina, Mrs Mierina obtained a frying pan from the kitchen and struck the accused on the again of the top with it."
Mr and Mrs Mierina each continued to grapple with Gowran, who at one level grabbed Mrs Mierina by the hair and pulled it. Miss Smith stated that as Gowran continued to battle violently with the couple, he bit them each on their proper forearms, piercing the pores and skin, earlier than operating out of the flat.
He fled empty handed with the shocked and shaken couple contacting their daughter, who referred to as the police. Mr and Mrs Mierina had been each left with "seen semi-circular marks on the forearm", the court docket was instructed.
Gowran, of Stirling, who appeared by video hyperlink from Low Moss Jail, Bishopbriggs, pleaded responsible to burglary, and assaulting the couple to their damage. Defence solicitor Fraser McCready stated: "This was a nasty offence. He expresses his regret. He was full of medicine. He cannot bear in mind a lot about it."
Gowran additionally admitted assaulting and injuring his sister's boyfriend, John Tardite, aged 25, in a separate incident at his mom's residence in Balfour Avenue, Stirling, at 5.30 am the identical day.
He threw a glass candle holder which struck Mr Tardite on the top. He then repeatedly punched him leaving the sufferer with a fractured eye socket.
Imposing the two-year jail time period, Sheriff Christopher Shead stated Gowran had proven "a big stage of violence".
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