A gran who was battered unconscious at a wake in an East Kilbride pub has called the sentence handed to her attacker "an insult".
Elizabeth Richardson, 54, was repeatedly kicked on the head while lying helpless on the floor of Greenhills Bar by thug Grant Rankin, 27, who worked with her at DHL Sainsbury's in the town.
They had been at the funeral of a workmate when all hell broke loose around 9pm and fighting erupted among mourners.
Rankin, of North Berwick Crescent, East Kilbride, was yesterday given a £1200 compensation order when he appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court.
He previously admitted assaulting Elizabeth on April 29, 2019 and sickening CCTV footage was shown at an earlier hearing of the gran - who had no part in the brawl - being savagely beaten after ending up on the floor.
His dad, Alexander Rankin, 55, of Lomond, East Kilbride, was fined £600 for his part in the fracas, after admitting a charge of threatening and abusive behaviour.
The attack was so severe that Elizabeth has no memory of it to this day and still suffers ill-effects including vertigo.
She was also left with crippling anxiety and, for more than a year after the beating, was prescribed anti-depressants.
She told Lanarkshire Live: "I am absolutely disgusted with the sentence - sick to my stomach.
"There is no justice in a compensation order - I lost more than £1200 in wages when I was unable to work because of the attack.
"And to him its nothing - I wanted community service to teach him a lesson, maybe not a jail sentence - but something to send out a message that you can't get away with what he did to me. But that's exactly what's happened, he's got away with it."
To add insult to injury Elizabeth and her family were put through "three years of hell" when the case was postponed a number of times.
Original guilty pleas made in court in May 2020 were then withdrawn prior to sentencing before fresh guilty pleas were subsequently re-entered after CCTV footage was viewed by the accused.
"After everything myself and my family have been put through - it's a total and utter sham, the whole justice system, " Elizabeth added.
"There is no way what happened to me was a 'mistake' - it's all there as clear as day on the CCTV footage - you don't kick someone's head in by mistake. Grant knew what he was doing.
"And then for it to be said in court that he had phoned me and said sorry - that never happened. He sent me a text saying he thought he had "fallen on top of me".
"This is never going to be over for me, what happened to me will always be with me - especially since to this day I have never been told why Grant did this or why it was me he attacked."
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