A drunken argument in a kebab shop left a young woman with a broken collar bone after a man charged at her in the street.
Tyler Leisk’s assault happened soon after he and his friends “exchanged words” with a group of women in an Aberdeen city centre takeaway.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard Leisk, 23, fled the scene following the 2am assault on Bon Accord Street but later handed himself into police.
Fiscal depute Dylan Middleton said the woman and two friends had been getting food at Antalya Kebab shop on Dee Street when four men, including Leisk, made comments towards them.
‘Deliberately shoulder barged her’
“The complainer challenged them about the comments made and thereafter left with her friends and began to walk away,” he said.
“A short while later she and her friends were walking down Bon Accord Street towards Bon Accord Square when the accused ran towards them and deliberately shoulder barged her, causing her to fall to the ground.
“The accused ran away down Langstane Place and was lost to view.”
His victim, meanwhile, was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and found to have a fractured right collar bone.
Leisk admitted a charge of assault to severe injury when he appeared in the dock from HMP Grampian, where he’s been held since the incident, on May 27 this year.
Leisk’s defence agent Paul Barnett said he had a “poor record for someone so young”.
“He had been out drinking with friends,” the solicitor said. “The offence occurred in the early hours of the morning by which time Mr Leisk was clearly heavily intoxicated.”
He said Leisk ran towards the group after they’d walked away.
It’s something he ‘very much regrets’
“He says he was not focused particularly on the complainer but ran at them with the intention of causing harm,” the solicitor said.
“The complainer was just the unfortunate one that he shoulder barged. That caused her to fall to the ground and she sustained that nasty shoulder injury.
“That’s something that he very much regrets.”
Mr Barnett added that it was to Leisk’s credit that he handed himself to the police once he learned they were looking for him.
“There are issues he needs to address after a difficult upbringing,” the court heard. “It’s maybe not that surprising he has grown up to be a damaged young man.
“He has issues with impulsiveness and anger particularly when alcohol is concerned.”
Previously served time behind bars
Sheriff Morag McLaughlin told Leisk: “I am not prepared to deal with this in the community. You will not be surprised to hear that.”
Leisk was previously jailed for two years in 2019 after he attacked his former partner with a boxing glove, poured boiling water over her and choked her during a horrific orgy of violence.
She added that it was she who jailed him in 2019 and said that while “nothing as serious as that has happened since, it’s not so terribly long ago”.
“There has been further series of violent offending since as well as community payback order breaches,” the sheriff added.
Leisk was jailed for 16 months, backdated to his remand date of June 2022, and also placed on an eight-month supervision order upon his release.
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