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Tragic dad jailed for assaulting father and son

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The father of tragic toddler Brandon Muir has been jailed for three-and-a-half years after leaving a father and son unconscious and severely injured in a brutal street attack.

John Garty – also known as John Muir – launched the assault on Andrew Ramsay, 36, and his father Arthur Ramsay, 60, after they left a Dundee pub following a night out with their partners.

Brandon Muir
Brandon Muir

Garty – whose son Brandon was killed in March 2008 by his mother Heather Boyd’s lover Robert Cunningham – followed them into the street claiming Andrew Ramsay had been “badmouthing him”.

He then lashed out – repeatedly punching the younger man to the head and knocking him into the middle of the road.

Garty then launched a horrific attack on Mr Ramsay Sr when he went to check how his son was.

Having knocked both men unconscious – leaving them “defenceless and unresponsive”, according to witnesses – Garty continued to batter them around the head.

Garty’s lawyer today asked for him to be spared jail – citing the loss of Brandon and the lack of “support and counselling” he had received in the aftermath.

But a sheriff told him the “gravity of his offences” meant jail was the only option.

 

Garty, 29, of Muirfield Place, pleaded guilty on indictment to charges of assault to severe injury and assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment.

The incident took place on November 22 last year in Cowgate, Dundee.

 

Sheriff Alastair Carmichael jailed Garty for three years and seven months.