Man will now ’live for the moment’ in jail after rammy

Banned from city centre bar for two years

A Perth man, said to “live for the moment” without considering the consequences, was jailed for a total of 14 months at the sheriff court.

Five months of the jail term related to 24-year-old Jordan Mitchell causing mayhem in a Perth city centre bar.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that violence erupted in The Venue, in the city’s St John Street, on February 28 this year.

He and a co-accused threatened licensee Francis Burger-Seed and made homophobic comments to him and other staff members.

Mitchell, of Meal Vennel, had earlier been spared jail and ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work in respect of that incident.

But the Community Payback Order was revoked and the prison sentence imposed.

A two-year ban from the pub will remain in force.

The accused was also given a further nine months behind bars after he stole a £100 mobile phone from The Grill Bar, Flesher’s Vennel, on December 12 last year - and then helped himself to more than £400 of clothing from JD Sports in the St John’s Shopping Centre, on Christmas Eve.

Mitchell further admitted making racial comments to Taner Ozturk in Fonemaster, Scott Street, on December 24 and spitting on the window.

The court was told staff were alerted to the shoplifting incident after the alarm went off and three of them pursued the accused and an accomplice from the store.

Mitchell was eventually traced in a toilet and the stolen property was recovered.

The mobile phone theft was caught on CCTV in The Grill and the accused was identified.

He later went to Fonemaster to try to sell it but was asked for photographic ID - and declined.

Mitchell became aggressive to the staff member and called him “a robbing Paki.”

As he left the shop he spat on the window.

The mobile phone was recovered from the accused’s jacket which had also been recovered from the toilet.

Solicitor Paul Ralph said his client had been assessed as suitable for unpaid work and asked the sheriff to consider that.

But the lawyer acknowledged he had “caused himself some difficulties” by committing the offences and had come to court with his bag of belongings.

Jailing him, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told him: “What appears to be clear from the background report is that you live for the moment and don’t really pay too much attention to the consequences.

“You have a somewhat fatalistic view regarding the consequences.”