A landscape gardener who hit a man on the head with a baseball bat during an attack in Fraserburgh has avoided detention.
Euan Faithfull, 19, assaulted Geordan Grant in the car park of the leisure centre in the town on November 28 last year.
Faithfull, along with his friend Matthew McAtasney, then assaulted another man Alastair Thompson by punching him on the head and put him in a headlock.
At an earlier hearing, Faithfull, of Heatherview, Boyndie, pled guilty to two charges of assault to injury and being in possession of an offensive weapon in a public place.
McAtasney, of Skelton Street in Peterhead, admitted a single charge of assault to injury.
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The sheriff at Peterhead Sheriff Court was previously told Mr Grant and Mr Thompson were sitting inside a car when the incident happened at the Seaforth Street facility.
Faithfull and McAtasney, 19, pulled up in another car and stepped out of the vehicle with Faithfull holding a baseball bat and shouting “get out the car”.
He then hit Geordan Grant with the baseball bat with a stabbing motion and the assault victim was left dazed.
McAtasaney then began assaulting Mr Thompson. Witnesses attempted to stop the attack.
Yesterday Faithfull and McAtasney returned to the dock to be sentenced.
Sam Milligan, defence lawyer for the pair, said Faithfull had no previous convictions and that those involved knew each other and there was a lot of “ill feeling.”
He said the blow Faithfull delivered with the baseball bat was a “push rather than an overhead smash.”
Sheriff Gary Aitken warned Faithfull that the only reason he was not being detained was down to his lack of criminal record.
He said: “It is only the fact that you have no previous offences that you are being kept out of detention at a young offenders institute.”
Sheriff Aitken ordered McAtasney to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and said he would review the case in six weeks.
Faithfull was ordered to carry 180 hours of unpaid work in the community.
