A THUG is facing jail for bottling a man in a pub brawl.
Barry Miller was caught on CCTV pounding a glass bottle repeatedly on the head of James Adair, 55, after Adair called Miller’s partner a grass.
Falkirk Sheriff Court was told last Tuesday that the incident happened in The Horsehoe Bar in Main Street, Clackmannan a few days before Christmas 2015.
Prosecutor Samantha Brown said Miller, 31, and Adair, who live in the same street in Clackmannan, had both been in the pub, drinking in separate groups.
Just after midnight, they had a conversation at the bar then Miller went to sit down.
Adair approached him and “there was a conversation that seemed to escalate into an argument”.
Miss Brown said Adair struck Miller first, then Miller hit him back. On CCTV footage played in court, Adair is seen being restrained by other customers and then appears to be being guided towards the door.
Miss Brown said Miller then “takes advantage of the situation”, striking Adair several times on the head with the bottle.
Outside, Adair, streaming with blood, flagged down police.
Officers called an ambulance and paramedics found he had a large L-shaped cut on his head, which was swollen and bleeding heavily.
Adair was lapsing in and out of consciousness, but though paramedics said the cut needed stitches, he declined to go to hospital, declined further medical attention and left the scene.
Miller, of Woodside Terrace, Clackmannan, pleaded guilty on indictment to assaulting Adair to his injury in the incident, on December 12 last year.
James Moncrieff, defending, said the argument had started because Adair had been saying that Miller’s partner had passed some information to the police.
Sheriff Craig Caldwell interjected: “Mr Adair was saying Mr Miller’s partner is a grass.”
Mr Moncrieff said Adair had hit his client first, but as Adair was being “escorted out of the premises, he saw red and reacted”.
As reported in the Advertiser previously, Adair was fined £150 for his part in the incident after he pleaded guilty to assaulting Miller.
Sheriff Caldwell deferred sentence on Miller until October 13 and warned him that while he would consider other options, he could face jail.