Thug subjected man to vicious attack during booze binge

A thug who carried out a vicious attack on a man at an address in Tillicoultry was this week jailed for a year and three months.

Darren Brown had placed a strap around Richard McAlonan’s neck before kicking him on the head and body.

Thirty-six-year-old Brown had admitted a charge on indictment of assaulting Mr McAlonan to his severe injury on October 30, 2019, in Ramsay Terrace.