A Ross-shire man who attacked a farmer and scarred him for life in a pub brawl has been jailed for 18 months.
Jordan Greig, 22, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced for hitting Lee Dunn with a plastic tumbler, leaving a 5cm gash in his head.
Sentence had been deferred at Inverness Sheriff Court for a drug treatment and testing order on Jordan, of 44 Westford, Alness.
His older brother, 26-year-old David Greig, of the same address was jailed for a year earlier this month for his part in the assault on January 1 this year.
He pleaded guilty to attempting to punch Mr Dunn outside the Mallard Bar in Dingwall during the two day trial and Jordan was unanimously found guilty by a jury of striking Mr Dunn with a plastic tumbler on his head to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Sheriff Margaret Neilson jailed Jordan Greig for 18 months who swore at the Sheriff as he was led away in handcuffs to begin his sentence.
She said: “Given your record of appalling behaviour, there is no alternative to a custodial sentence.”
Both brothers had admitted numerous previous convictions for assault.
The trial was told that Mr Dunn was scarred for life in the fracas after sustaining a five centimetre gash on the left side of his forehead.
Jordan had claimed it was self defence as he feared an attack by Mr Dunn.
But the jury rejected this after seeing CCTV of the incident and hearing from two female door stewards who were trying to stop trouble.
The trial earlier heard that Jordan had thrown a drink over Mr Dunn before being thrown out.
Mr Dunn went to the door to demand to know why it had happened and CCTV footage showed David Greig throw a punch at him before his brother leapt in.
Mr Dunn left the doorway and approached Jordan Greig with his arm raised as if to deliver a blow. Jordon then threw another punch while holding the tumbler.
Fiscal Roderick Urquhart told the jury: “It was a deliberate, wilful and wicked act.”
Door steward Kim Macdonald told the court that she was attempting to keep patrons in the bar including Mr Dunn from going outside to clash with the Greigs.
She said: “Lee got punched in the face – I think by David and then he got a plastic glass to the head that was in Jordan’s hand. It left a large cut.”