A man pinned a reveller down and punched him more than a dozen times during a “brutal” attack in an Inverurie bar.
Warren Young had been sitting at a table drinking with two friends and his victim when he suddenly reached across and started raining blows down on the man.
The 47-year-old only stopped punching the man when a friend intervened and separated them.
Following the assault, the victim was left with a broken nose, although the court was told this may have been inflicted in an earlier incident.
Fiscal depute Ryan Diamond told Aberdeen Sheriff Court the incident happened shortly after 9pm on October 29 2022.
‘Quite extreme behaviour’
He said: “The complainer was sitting at a table together with three other males, the accused and two other untraced males.”
The group were all drinking and engaging in conversation.
Mr Diamond said: “For reasons not clear from the CCTV, the accused rose from his seat, leaned over and pinned the complainer with one hand and then, with his free hand, proceeded to repeatedly punch him to the head.
“He was punched around 14 times and that continued until one of the untraced males separated the pair.”
Young and his friends were asked to leave the pub and did, while his victim was later arrested in relation to a separate matter.
However, police took him to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he was found to have a “minimally displaced nose fracture” but did not require treatment.
Young, whose address was given as Kingfisher Place, Inverurie, pled guilty to a charge of assault to injury.
‘Threatening behaviour by the individual towards my client’
Sheriff Graham Buchanan commented the offence seemed like “quite extreme behaviour”, adding: “Quite brutal. A quite sustained attack.”
Defence agent Ian Woodward-Nutt said: “My position is this matter is not as serious as it may seem at first blush.
“It’s understood the complainer was involved in a violent altercation with other individuals at the locus.
“There was significant, aggressive, threatening behaviour by the individual towards my client and his friends.”
Mr Woodward-Nutt added: “I’m not sure the Crown are in a position to say my client’s behaviour caused the complainer a broken nose.”
Sheriff Buchanan deferred sentence on Young until later this month for him to be personally present.
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