A 24-YEAR-OLD Oban man has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for an ‘extremely violent’ assault.
David Kyle Bruce, of Rock Haven, Glenmore Road, Oban, pleaded guilty in August to assaulting a man at Station Road, Oban, on the night of September 26, 2015, by repeatedly punching him on the head, causing him to fall to the ground, and then kicking him in the head to his loss of consciousness and severe injury. Sheriff Ruth Anderson QC deferred sentence for a criminal justice social work report.
Defence agent Kevin McGinness told Oban Sheriff Court on Tuesday: ‘Mr Bruce’s fiancée was involved in a short relationship with the complainer. He has felt a hostile attitude towards him by the complainer: glares in bars, bumping into him in bars, which the accused took to be provocative.