An Ardrishaig barman was fined £3,500 but spared jail by a Campbeltown sheriff last Thursday.
At an August court appearance, Blair MacDonald Johnston, 41, of 9 Brae Road, pleaded guilty, under provocation, to a charge of assault, severe injury and permanently disfiguring one of two men. The graduate, with a degree in sports injuries and rehabilitation, who works in Aviemore, pleaded guilty to a further charge, also under provocation, of assaulting a second man, knocking him to the ground and repeatedly punching him.
The charges related to an incident in an Islay hotel when Johnston was attacked by two customers, before he rendered one of them unconscious and stamped on his head. At that hearing, the sheriff was shown a CCTV film of the incident in the early hours of November 8 last year at Number One Pub, formerly the White Hart, 1 Charlotte Street, Port Ellen.