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A soccer hooligan who chewed a chunk off a pensioner’s ear after a match between Glasgow Rangers and Celtic became jailed on the present time for two years.
Alistair Mackay, fifty three, pounced on Steven Brown, 67, in Glasgow city centre on September 3, 2023, after the derby clash, is called the Primitive Company sport, which had been carried out earlier at Rangers’ home stadium of Ibrox.
Celtic gained and the match 1-0 but fan Mackay, who had earlier watched the game in a pub, acquired fascinated with an altercation with a man in a Rangers top.
This became separated by Mr Brown who became then attacked by Mackay who bit his ear for the duration of the melee, GlasgowLive stories.
Mackay pled responsible at Glasgow Sheriff Court docket to assaulting Mr Brown to his extreme spoil and permanent disfigurement.
Sheriff Tom Hughes stated that the topic became linked to a “lethal mixture” of alcohol being taken, a man being left alongside with his ear bitten off and “mayhem triggered within the town centre.”
The sheriff added: “It ought to be abundantly clear to shining minded people who this became totally and completely unacceptable and ought to not be tolerated in this city.
“I’m aware that this weekend there shall be one other match with people being badly injured which is ready to plan off complications for fogeys equivalent to you turning up before a decide for a crucial sentence – for what? A soccer match.
“A clear message has to exit from the courts that this habits would possibly well well not be tolerated and ought to be taken seriously. The finest imaginable technique to deal with this because of the the crucial nature of the offence is custody.”
Mackay became additionally banned from attending soccer fits for five years.
The court docket earlier heard that Mackay, with two chums, had watched the game and drank in The Barras and Merchant City areas of the town. The trio were strolling to Glasgow Central sing space when they stumbled on Mr Brown and his buddy who were strangers.
The pair heard a disturbance and seen Mackay and his chums in a bodily altercation with a young man wearing a Rangers top. Mr Brown went to separate the fight and tried to drag Mackay away.
Prosecutor Jenny Reid stated: “Mr Brown was then involved in a struggle with Mackay and both fell to the ground. Mr Brown did not feel any pain or pressure to his ear at this time.
“However, there became nobody shut ample to him which can well well contain triggered the wound to his left ear.”
A witness pulled Mackay off Mr Brown who was bleeding profusely from his ear. Miss Reid added: “A portion of his ear appeared to be lacking.”
The victim later attended hospital where he was found to have “fleshy thickness tissue loss of his left ear from the helix to the lobe.”
The wound was closed and he was released from hospital the next day. Meantime, Mackay and his friends walked to Glasgow Central station.
Miss Reid said: “As he handed the Grant Fingers pub, he became in possession of a piece of Mr Brown’s ear in his genuine hand.”
Mackay, of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, turned himself in a month later following a media appeal. Ross Yuill, defending, told the sentencing that his client is unlikely to be in court again.
