Alyth man committed two assaults in under a fortnight

An Alyth man has been sentenced to an 18-month community payback order with 225 hours of unpaid work for committing two assaults in under a fortnight.

Ian Campbell appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court having previously admitted that he assaulted a man in Alyth’s Commercial Street on December 7 last year and breached the peace by shouting and swearing and stating that he had a knife.

He also pleaded guilty to assaulting another man in Alyth’s Airlie Street on December 20, engaging in a fight with him and causing him to strike his head and break a window, to his injury.

The court earlier heard that in the first incident Campbell, 34, of Bank Street, marched a man he said had been cheeky to a relative to the Alyth Hotel and told him: “Someone’s going to get stabbed tonight.”

In the second assault, he became aggressive towards a man for no apparent reason, the court heard.