An Arbroath man who glassed another man in a pub because he thought his wife had been assaulted has been jailed for 18 months.
Michael McGruer, 49, of Bank Street, grabbed a glass at the town’s Stag Inn and hit a man on the head and twice on the shoulder with it.
He only stopped when a barmaid persuaded him to drop the glass.
The man was left “covered in blood” and required stitches on his face and shoulder.
Depute fiscal Eilidh Robertson had told Dundee Sheriff Court the incident was started by the complainer, who was alleged to have punched McGruer’s wife unconscious in a case of “mistaken identity”.
The woman began bleeding heavily from a head injury and her husband grabbed a glass from the bar, while telling the barmaid to “call the police”.
The fiscal said: “McGruer struck the complainer on the head with the glass and thereafter struck him twice in the area of his shoulder with the glass.”
McGruer admitted the assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement on March 2.
Sentencing McGruer, Sheriff Elizabeth Munro told him: “There is absolutely no excuse for assaulting somebody with a glass, particularly when it is more than one blow.
“I am prepared to accept there was a degree of provocation here, perhaps not in a legal sense, but a human sense.”