A young boxer from Crieff tried to sink his teeth into a man’s neck as he launched a vicious drunken attack on a school playing field.
Jack Rylance left his victim permanently disfigured.
Rylance previously appeared at Perth Sheriff Court to plead guilty to a pair of assaults, including one on a 13-year-old boy, in 2020.
The 18-year-old attacked the teenage boy, who cannot be named, by punching him and knocking him to the ground at Pittenzie Road on May 29.
Rylance, of the town’s Maxton Road, admitted he attacked a man on the same date at the nearby playing fields.
He punched the man on his head, knocking him to the ground.
Rylance then straddled him and repeatedly punched him on the head and body before attempting to bite him on the neck.
He then did manage to bite the man on the body and after his victim had got to his feet, Rylance knocked him to the ground a second time.
Again, he repeatedly punched him on the head.
The teenager, who has received boxing training, was intoxicated at the time of his brutal attacks.
Court papers state Rylance’s victim was left injured and permanently disfigured.
Compensation for victims
Rylance appeared before Sheriff Paul Brown at Dundee Sheriff Court to be sentenced.
His solicitor Paul Ralph said: “He was 16 at the time. He’s now 18.
“I think he’s had a good look at himself and his behaviour and how he can avoid getting himself into such a state in the future.
“I think there’s every indication he can become a useful member of society.
“There are direct alternatives (to custody) available.”
Sheriff Brown placed Rylance under supervision for a year and ordered him to pay compensation.
He must pay the boy £250 and the man £500.
There is a further £40 surcharge.
Sentencing had been deferred to allow Rylance to stand trial last month for other matters, of which a jury acquitted him.
Jurors found him not guilty of seizing a man older than him and punching him, then repeatedly punching him when he was on the ground at Crieff’s James Square.
The jury agreed that he acted in self defence on September 4 in 2020.
