Inverness man ordered to pay cyclist compensation
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A 60-year-old cyclist was beaten up in a road rage incident.
Sheriff Sara Matheson told 31-year-old Martin MacKinnon, of Culduthel Mains Court, Inverness that if he committed a further assault, he was getting “in the territory of a prison sentence” due to his four previous assault convictions.
But the sheriff said that having heard the evidence in his trial, read the background report and the efforts he had made to start his own business, she would only impose a compensation order, rather than custody.
MacKinnon had been found guilty of assaulting a 60-year-old to his injury in Ross Avenue, Inverness on May 2, 2020, by punching him on the head, knocking him to the ground, standing on his arm and repeatedly punching and kicking him to the body all to his injury.
He then threw the man’s bicycle across the road and damaged it.
The court heard a dispute arose after MacKinnon had driven past the cyclist.
He was ordered to pay £1200 compensation.
