Assaultby yob (20)

A Stirling yob who attacked a female at Bannockburn Miners’ Welfare was this week ordered to carry out 135 hours’ unpaid work

Ryan Sneddon, of Scott Street, had admitted a charge of assaulting a woman to her injury at the Morrison Drive club on June 18 last year.

The 20-year-old had struck her on the head with his head causing her to fall.

His agent told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday that a report prepared for the court was a positive one in which Sneddon had expressed remorse.

The report had also identified alcohol misuse as an underlying problem.

Sheriff Hamilton, who had heard the circumstances on a previous occasion, noted that a crowd had been involved at the time.

Sneddon’s agent asked Sheriff Hamilton to impose a community-based disposal – given that his client had no previous convictions, had pleaded guilty to an amended charge, the timing of the plea and the positive report.

Sentencing Sneddon to a Community Payback Order as an alternative to custody, Sheriff Hamilton expressed the hope that the matter was a one-off. The order comprised 135 hours’ unpaid work – reduced from 150 hours’ due to the guilty plea – to be completed within 12 months.