A violent thug brutally beat a man with a plank of wood, a golf club and a frying pan in an Aberdeen flat – then called himself an ambulance.
Jordan Stuart, 20, admitted repeatedly assaulting his victim at Bradley Terrace in Aberdeen by striking him with a number of household items while also kicking and punching him.
The man was left stumbling in the communal stairwell with blood running down his face.
And Stuart, despite having delivered the savage beating, called an ambulance for himself, claiming his knuckles had been cut during a fight.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that Stuart, who acted alongside two men, also stole the victim’s shoes during the frenzied early morning attack.
He was left with nearly 10 separate injuries to his body and had six puncture wounds on his head.
When police carried out a forensic examination, they found Stuart’s blood and DNA on a golf club that had broken as a result of the brutal attack.
Stuart pleaded guilty to one charge of assault using various implements in order to cause injury and disfigurement.
Witness saw man covered in blood in communal hallway
Fiscal depute Brian Young told the court that a witness had looked out into the communal hallway of the third floor on Bradley Terrace to see a man “stumbling out of a block of flats with his head covered with blood”.
He then saw Stuart, then 19, attempt to kick and punch the man as he pleaded for him to stop the attack.
Mr Young added: “A second witness heard someone shouting and screaming outside the block of flats.
“He looked outside the window and saw three males running away from the locus – he also heard one of them shout that someone needed to call an ambulance.”
Police then received a call at 2.35am in which the caller told them the injured man had “fallen down a flight of stairs” and that “someone had stolen his shoes”.
The Scottish Ambulance Service then contacted police stating that Stuart had requested an ambulance to another address on Bradley Terrace because his “hand was burst open from a Stanley knife, that he had been involved in a fight and that a blade had been involved”.
A number of police vehicles immediately attended at Stuart’s address while the complainer was located in a nearby street with blood on his face and head.
He refused to say who carried out the attack but did disclose that he had been assaulted with a number of weapons, including a frying pan and a golf club.
Victim was found with many injuries and puncture wounds
The man was found to have numerous injuries, including a swollen shut left eye, swelling to his left ear, a cut to the bridge of his nose, a cut to his right eyebrow a large cut to this forehead and six separate punctures wounds to his head that were caused by a blunt object.
A forensic examination later linked Stuart’s blood and DNA to a broken golf club and a silver frying pan.
Accused was ‘acting in concert’ with other men
Defence agent Mike Monro told the court that Stuart accepted that he had been at the address of the assault and that he had drunk a lot of alcohol.
He added: “One thing led to another and there was an incident involving others other than the accused.
“However, the accused then entered it and then became involved in it.
“He accepts that he might not have been doing x or y but that he was acting in concert with these other men.”
Sheriff Graham Buchanan told the 20-year old that despite the fact that he had been on remand for a “long time” he had taken part in a “very serious matter”.
He added: “This was a concerted attack which involved the use of a number of weapons and significant injuries were caused to the victim.”
Sheriff Buchanan sentenced Stuart, whose address was given as Polmont Young Offenders Institution, to 21 months detention backdated to December 17 last year.
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