A soldier snared for a brutal assault after his regimental T-shirt was spotted on CCTV has been ordered to pay compensation to his victim.
Joel Cooney left a fellow squaddie with a fractured jaw and eye socket after punching him in the face on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
The 19-year-old, who had been in the city to perform at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, landed a single blow moments after shaking hands with the victim in an apparent truce.