A vicious drug supplier who battered an ageing addict with a metal-buckled leather belt has been jailed for two years and nine months.
Dillan Connal, 23, "justified" the attack to police by telling officers the man owed him money for valium, a court was told.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard that Connal, 23, had met Christopher Dench, whom the court was told was "in his 60s", in the street outside Mr Dench's home in Kerse Gardens, Falkir k, in the summer of 2020.