Baseball bat thug caged one year
A thug who battered his victim with a baseball bat so severely he was forced to have surgery to fix a plate into his elbow has been jailed for 32 months.
Harry Allitt stood in the dock at Hamilton Sheriff Court last week to be sentenced having admitted his guilt at a hearing in the same court in April.
Allitt pleaded guilty to assaulting Steven Mills on the body with a baseball bat to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.
Mr Mills was left with a fractured elbow and two lacerations to his arm as a result of the attack.
At a previous hearing, the court heard that on January 7 of this year, Mr Mills was in Lindum Crescent, Motherwell, under the influence of some kind of substance.
A car drove up the road with 22-year-old Allitt emerging from the vehicle.
Allitt grabbed aluminium bat from his car and began to strike Mr Mills on the body.
Fiscal depute Michael Macintosh told the court it was unclear how many times Allitt struck Mr Mills with the bat but the victim eventually fell to the ground.
Allitt then went back to his car and drove off.
A nearby taxi driver and two 15- year- old’s witnessed the incident and contacted the emergency services.
Mr Mills was rushed to Wishaw General Hospital with doctors discovering a serious injury to his left arm.
He has since had a fixation plate inserted in his elbow but will be left with a permanent scar as a result of the assault.
A warrant was issued for Allitt’s arrest on March 15 and he attended at a police station on March 31.
In Allitt’s defence, his solicitor Diarmid Bruce told the court Mr Mills had been suspected of damaging a number of cars in the area and some of the vehicle belonged to friends of his client.
In court last week, Allitt, of Fort Street, Motherwell, was sentenced to 32 months in prison as a result of his actions. The trial of a Wishaw slasher, who allegedly left a fellow prisoner scarred for life after he whacked him with a tin of beans stuffed inside a sock, has collapsed.
Joshua Thomson, who is serving a 40-month jail sentence for slashing a man at a bus stop in Netherton last year, was alleged to have struck Hugh McPhee to the head during an incident inside HMP Addiewell.
A jury at Edinburgh Sheriff Court was this week shown CCTV footage of the attack as 23-yearold Thomson stood trial in front of Sheriff Frank Crowe.
The images showed a male walking along the prison’s Forth Bravo wing before entering McPhee’s cell for a few seconds.
The male is then seen to run from the cell carrying the sock and with a bloodied McPhee, dressed only in his underpants, chasing him along the corridor.
Prison officer Stuart Fisher told the jury he was one of the first on the scene when the incident took place around 8.30am on Saturday, September 3 last year.
Mr Fisher, 33, said he was “absolutely positive” that the male on the CCTV footage was Thomson despite the images not being clear enough to identify the culprit’s face.
McPhee, 30, who is serving a prison sentence for an assault, was left with a star-shaped cut to his forehead and he was taken to St John’s Hospital, in Livingston, to have seven stitches inserted to the wound.
But the trial collapsed and Thomson was found not guilty after McPhee took to the witness stand to give his evidence.