Unpaid work for attack

A yob who attacked a man at a Callander address was this week ordered to carry out 200 hours’unpaid work.

Robin Shaw, of Hareburn Road, Tillicoultry, had admitted assaulting Benjamin Maclean by punching him on the head at a house in Ritchie Place on April 16 this year.

A co-accused – 28-yearold Robin Shaw’s brother Alexander (24), of Alexandria, Dunbartonshire – was last month given a jail sentence on charges which included throwing a brick at a car in Ritchie Place that day, causing its windscreen to break.

Alexander Shaw had admitted charges of destroying property, possessing a knife and driving without insurance.

At Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday Shaw’s agent Virgil Crawford told Sheriffwilliam Gilchrist the accused had accompanied Alexander Shaw to the address where a disagreement took place between the younger brother and Benjamin Maclean.

Mr Crawford added:“mr Shaw accepts that during the course of that he struck Mr Maclean. There was no injury.”

The lawyer pointed out that the accused had recently been fined for a Covid violation, but there were no other cases outstanding.

Shaw, he said, was single and unemployed and received £243 per fortnight in benefits - £80 of which he gave to his mother for his keep.

Mr Crawford asked Sheriff Gilchrist to impose a fine.

However, asking about Shaw’s fitness, Sheriff Gilchrist was told the accused was fit for work.

Sheriff Gilchrist told Shaw:“i sentenced your brother to prison. He was the principal offender. Yours was a bit part”.

Sheriff Gilchrist imposed a community payback order comprising 100 hours’unpaid work to be completed within 12 months.