A KILMARNOCK thug smashed a glass jar over another man's head after he denied his request for drugs.

Stuart Anderson, 27, left his victim scarred for life after the savage attack earlier this year.

Anderson, described in court papers as a prisoner at HMP Kilmarnock, pleaded guilty at the town's sheriff court to assaulting another man with the weapon, which left his victim severely injured and permanently disfigured.

The incident took place at around 8.20pm on July 17, around the Tourhill Road area of Kilmarnock.

The court heard the victim had just left a friend's house when he was approached by Anderson asking for cannabis.

The victim said he didn't have anything, but Anderson asked again and this time followed the man.

The procurator fiscal depute said the man asked Anderson to leave him alone, but Anderson continued to follow and threatened to smash the glass drinking jar over him.

Anderson then swung the jar at the man, and during a struggle he hit him three times with the weapon.

Three civilian witnesses saw the attack, the court was told. 

The victim was left bleeding heavily, and sought help at an address nearby before going home and heading to hospital.

He needed five stitches on wounds around his face and nose. He also had three teeth broken in the attack.

The incident was reported to police who found and seized the broken glass from the weapon.

 

Anderson, the court heard, later handed himself in at Kilmarnock police station, where officers noted he had injuries to his hand and knuckle consistent with the report given to cops.

Anderson was arrested and cautioned, but at the time he claimed "it was self defence".

Anderson's solicitor, Brian Holliman, said his client had been released from prison in 2020 and had not been in trouble until the incident.

"Given his record, he considered this to be somewhat of an achievement," he added.

Mr Holliman said Anderson had been diagnosed with ADHD and had a history of not taking his medication - but that in April Anderson "fell back into drug use and abuse".

"That led to a descent back into chaos," Mr Holliman said.

"He stopped taking his medication and replaced it with street Valium, heroin and crack cocaine.

"This incident, on that concoction of drugs, was inevitable."

He added that Anderson now believed "he needed the jail" as his "life was on a path of destruction that he could not control".

Mr Holliman said: "All he has asked me to do is publicly apologise for his actions."

Sheriff Mungo Bovey jailed Anderson for 16 months, backdated to July 31, when he was first held in custody.