Campbeltown court was shocked into silence as details of an assault were given by the procurator fiscal depute.
Last Thursday, James Duncan Docherty, 43, whose address was given as prisoner in the prison at Greenock, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of assualting a woman at a Campbeltown address on November 24, last year. The charge, on November 25, 2018, stated that Docherty repeatedly kicked and punched the woman on her head and body, knocked her to the ground, stamped on her head and seized her hair to strike her head against walls all to her severe injury.