A man who repeatedly stabbed someone at a north-east market fair has been jailed.
Arturs Belijs attacked Kamil McHura during a Super Saturday event in Fraserburgh’s town centre on June 13, 2015
The 21-year-old, of as Westshore Gardens, had originally been charged with attempted murder.
But the Crown later accepted his guilty plea to a lesser charge of assault and possessing a weapon.
At the time he was handed a community payback order to complete.
But yesterday he was jailed at Peterhead Sheriff Court for failing to complete the work.
He also appeared for a string of other offences – including housebreaking and driving while drunk – which he also admitted.
Belijs crashed a silver Mazda 6 into a wall in Fraserburgh’s Watermill Road on August 6 while over the drink-drive limit and with only a provisional licence.
He further admitted breaking in to a George Street home on March 22 and being in possession of stolen goods.
Both offences happened last year.
At the time of the crash he was more than three times the legal limit.
He had been driving with 74 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 22 mcg.
Sheriff Andrew Miller sentenced him to 13 months in prison.
He said: “You were given the opportunity to carry out unpaid work within the community instead of custody.
“But you have failed to comply.
“It is not appropriate, with having regard to this and these other serious offences, to impose another community payback order.”
Belijs’ sentence will be back dated to March 13, when he was first remanded in custody.
He was also banned from the roads for two years.
Solicitor Sam Milligan had represented Belijs during yesterday’s proceedings.
He told the court that his client was a young man who had been afforded “little or nothing” within his home environment to assist him into adulthood.
“Mr Belijs receives very little if any support from his family,” he added.
“There has been a motivation on him to protect not only himself, but his younger brother from that.”
