A Highland chef has been jailed for eight months after an “exceptionally nasty” glass attack on a man who refused to give him a cigarette.
Callum Hilson, an executive sous chef at Blackfriars Inverness, hit the man on the head with the glass in the early hours of the morning of October 3 this year.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told the 26-year-old was intoxicated when he reacted to being refused a cigarette.
Sheriff Gary Aitken said it was “an exceptionally nasty assault” and it was only the effect on his partner and two children that spared him from a lengthier jail sentence.
The Lombard Street assault wasn’t the only crime Hilson, of Clune Terrace, Newtonmore, appeared in court for yesterday.
Vandalism rampage in town
Hilson and another man, Sam Maguire, of Duncan Drive, Nairn, also vandalised cars during a drunken rampage in Nairn.
The pair previously admitted two charges of vandalism, that occurred in the town’s High Street on February 17 2020.
Hilson also pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening or abusive behaviour by shouting and swearing, pushing over litter bins, throwing plant pots onto the roadway and kicking wing mirrors of parked vehicles in Lodgehill Road.
Maguire, who is currently serving a 12-month prison sentence for other offences, admitted an additional charge of resisting arrest by struggling with three police officers and was jailed for eight months.
The court was told that an eye-witness saw the pair kicking cars as they walked up Nairn’s High Street and decided to follow them.
In Cawdor Road, he observed Hilson shouting and swearing and kicking over litter bins, so he called the police.
Fiscal depute Karen Poke said the estimated cost of the damage to the vehicles was £550 in total.
