A KNIGHTSWOOD thug who left a man badly hurt after punching him on the head in the street has been spared a prison sentence.
Andrew Moshi attacked his victim in Smollett Road, Dumbarton, on May 12.
The 30-year-old appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday for sentencing after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to a charge of assaulting the man to his severe injury.
Moshi had also admitted charges of being in possession of an offensive weapon and of damaging a motor vehicle by striking it with a hammer, also in Smollett Road, on the same day.
Friday’s hearing was told the damage to the car had been estimated at £350.
Moshi, of Towerhill Road in Knightswood, was told by Sheriff Maxwell Hendry: “This was a nasty incident.
“You have a criminal record heading towards the bottom of a second page of previous convictions.
“I’ve had to think very carefully about a custodial sentence here, but I’m just pulling back from that.
“However, you have come about as close as I suspect you will ever want to come to going to prison.”
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Instead of a custodial sentence, Moshi was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work within nine months as part of a community payback order; he will also be supervised by social workers until January of 2021.
In addition, he was told to pay £350 in compensation for the damage to the car.
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