A violent thug who repeatedly stamped on a club-goer’s head in a drink and drug fuelled attack has avoided custody.
The vicious assault to the danger of Ben Mackay’s life at Envy Nightclub in Bathgate, West Lothian, on 30 October 2021 was the culmination of a series of violent outbursts by 20-year-old Declan Smith, Livingston Sheriff Court heard.
Smith, from Armadale, West Lothian, also admitted causing an earlier disturbance by shouting, swearing and uttering violent threats in the town on 13 July 2019 before assaulting Brian Smith by striking him on the hand with a knife to his injury.
