A chef who stamped on his dad leaving him with multiple fractures and a shoeprint on his face has lost an appeal against his prison sentence.
Joseph Mearns, 25, hoped to have his three years and four months sentence for attacking his dad, Frank, cut.
Lawyers acting for the Hilltown man argued that his sentence was “excessive” and Mearns could have been placed on a community order.
But judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh dismissed the appeal.
Dundee Sheriff Court previously heard that Mearns carried out his brutal assault after a boozy night out in the city centre. In the early hours of the morning, they ended up at a block of flats where Joseph Mearns was staying.
A friend of Mearns heard a “commotion” in a close and found him standing over his “unresponsive” father while beating him.
Sheriff Alistair Brown said: “You subjected your father to a dreadful attack and did enormous damage.
“Stamping on somebody’s head is one of the most serious forms of assault that there is.
“The information I have is that you had a difficult relationship with your father and you found him annoying.
“I assume in your favour that is true, but that goes nowhere towards persuading me that I should step away from the only obvious appropriate sentence, which is a substantial custodial one.”
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