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02-Sep-15, 17:19
Victim claims he was hit by baseball bat - not stabbed
A MAN, alleged to have been repeatedly stabbed and punched by a single attacker, claimed in court that he was accosted by three men and struck with a baseball bat.
Unemployed Darren Bruce was giving evidence in the trial of Scott Lindsay, at Wick Sheriff Court, today.
The indictment accuses Lindsay, 39, described as a prisoner at Inverness Prison, of repeatedly punching Mr Bruce and repeatedly stabbing him with a knife to his severe injury.
However, Mr Bruce, 30, had a different version of the incident, outside the entrance to a block of flats known as St John's House, in Stainland Drive, Thurso, on June 3.
Mr Bruce, a self-confessed alcoholic, claimed to have blown' £300 on drink in a local pub, earlier that day including two bottles of whisky he had purchased and said he was "steaming".
He told the jury that only remembered parts of the incident but recalled one of the trio that "set about him", hitting him in the face with a baseball bat. Mr Bruce said he was unconscious for a time and his only other recollections were, being in an ambulance and then in Caithness General Hospital.
Mr Bruce, who was living in Inverness at the time and had come north to visit his mother, at the time of the incident, told the court he was going to have a plate inserted in his left eye but played down a photo book production of his multiple injuries as "superficial".
He described his attackers as "young men who might live in the Thurso area" but he didn't known their names.
Mr Bruce claimed he had left Thurso to make a fresh start. He said he had had "a colourful past" and had upset people and thought the attack might be motivated by revenge by some folk "out to make a name for themselves".
Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the assault and also denies possession of a knife in a public place..
A MAN, alleged to have been repeatedly stabbed and punched by a single attacker, claimed in court that he was accosted by three men and struck with a baseball bat.
Unemployed Darren Bruce was giving evidence in the trial of Scott Lindsay, at Wick Sheriff Court, today.
The indictment accuses Lindsay, 39, described as a prisoner at Inverness Prison, of repeatedly punching Mr Bruce and repeatedly stabbing him with a knife to his severe injury.
However, Mr Bruce, 30, had a different version of the incident, outside the entrance to a block of flats known as St John's House, in Stainland Drive, Thurso, on June 3.
Mr Bruce, a self-confessed alcoholic, claimed to have blown' £300 on drink in a local pub, earlier that day including two bottles of whisky he had purchased and said he was "steaming".
He told the jury that only remembered parts of the incident but recalled one of the trio that "set about him", hitting him in the face with a baseball bat. Mr Bruce said he was unconscious for a time and his only other recollections were, being in an ambulance and then in Caithness General Hospital.
Mr Bruce, who was living in Inverness at the time and had come north to visit his mother, at the time of the incident, told the court he was going to have a plate inserted in his left eye but played down a photo book production of his multiple injuries as "superficial".
He described his attackers as "young men who might live in the Thurso area" but he didn't known their names.
Mr Bruce claimed he had left Thurso to make a fresh start. He said he had had "a colourful past" and had upset people and thought the attack might be motivated by revenge by some folk "out to make a name for themselves".
Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the assault and also denies possession of a knife in a public place..