A former Dundee player assaulted a man with a baseball bat after a fight broke out at a party, a court has heard.
Declan Gallagher who now plays for Championship side Livingston after being released by the Dens Park club last year is alleged to have attacked Steven Findlay at the Parkville Hotel in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
The 24-year-old is accused of repeatedly punching and kicking Mr Findlay, knocking him to the ground and striking him on the head with a baseball bat, or similar implement, to his severe injury of danger to his life in April, 2013.
Anthony Murray (29) is also face those charges and is accused of attacking Mr Findlay’s girlfriend Marie Dockery.
She told Hamilton Sheriff Court that she saw both men hit her partner with a baseball bat outside the hotel after an earlier incident inside.
Miss Dockery said that Mr Murray had pulled her to the ground by her hair and she was left with bruising to her eye and arm after the incident.
She told the jury that she was with her partner outside the Parkville later in the evening and saw both of the accused hit Mr Findlay with a baseball bat during an attack while they were waiting for a taxi.
Both men deny the charges against them.
The trial continues.