Inverness duo assaulted man outside Nisa after ‘rude’ comment
Two Inverness men took exception to comments made to them by a man standing outside a shop in Hilton.
Fiscal depute Adele Gray told Sheriff Gary Aitken that 34-year-old Thomas Brown, of Culduthel Park, and 39-year-old Robin Clark, of Gilbert Street, punched the man in the face on July 6 last year at the Nisa shop in Tomatin Road.
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They admitted the assault at Inverness Sheriff Court and they were fined £500 each.
Clark's lawyer John MacColl said: "The complainer said something rude to a lady who was on the scene. My client took exception to it and reacted. He lost his temper for a short time."
Brown's solicitor David Patterson told Sheriff Aitken: "The incident was captured on CCTV. Initially my client was the peacekeeper having intervened to stop the fight. But then he was called a junkie and he reacted."