A Stirling thug who battered and robbed a man walking home after a night out has been jailed.
Twenty-six-year-old Christopher McGowan maintained an attack his 41-year-old victim for a full 10 minutes while the older man curled into a ball.
Stirling Sheriff Court heard the man was walking home alone about half past midnight having visited pubs in Stirling city centre, when he was waylaid on the pavement in McLaren Terrace, Stirling, near its junction with Broomridge Road, by McGowan and two accomplices.