AN Alloa man who carried out a “vicious” assault on a drunken man – kicking and stamping on his head – has been jailed for two years.

Kodeh Macintyre, now 20, appeared for sentence at Stirling Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to endangering the life of a 27-year-old by attacking him while he was lying on the ground in Mill Street on December 3, 2022.

And he was told that Scottish sentencing guidelines, which say rehabilitation should be a primary consideration when sentencing a young person, did not mean he could escape custody.

The court previously heard that at 2.15am on December 3, 2022, the victim and another man were walking along Mill Street.

Prosecutor Katie Cunningham said: “They were intoxicated and became involved with a group of people, one of whom was the accused.”

A physical altercation began in which a man with the victim punched Macintyre to the head.

Another man then knocked the victim to the ground.

It was then that Macintyre approached him and began kicking him to his head and body. At one point, another male, wearing a black bodywarmer, also kicked the victim.

A bouncer at a nearby pub called police, who arrived to find the victim with bruising on his face and several minor cuts. He declined medical attention.

Miss Cunningham played CCTV footage of the attack, which showed Macintyre returning time and time again to boot the victim in the head and stamp on his head in a brutal attack that lasted nearly five minutes.

Solicitor Murray Aitken, defending, said: “The court saw the footage and there's little I can say that could ever mitigate that sort of assault with the violence witnessed.

“The violence did start from the other side. The parties were walking down the road, as the court saw from the footage, and the other side instigated the physical confrontation.

“Mr Macintyre was assaulted first, which started the violence. It doesn't excuse what happened thereafter.

“The complainer didn't require any medical intervention. He was able to walk away and when the police visited him the next day he still refused to have any medical treatment.”

Mr Aitken said Macintyre had a job, a supportive family,  had not been in any trouble with the police before or since the incident, and a criminal justice social enquiry report on him was “positive” and assessed his risk of re-offending as minimal."

He added: “He is an extremely hard-working young man with a positive future.

“He describes himself as disgusted at the footage. He is at a loss to explain why he would do something like this. He says this is not how he normally is.

“It does seem to have been one night of madness on his part.”

Sheriff Derek Hamilton described the incident as “quite shocking” and the CCTV footage “graphic”.

He said: “I have rarely seen a more sustained attack by kicking and stamping to a victim's head.

“I lost count of the number of times you kicked him to the head.

“It should be abundantly clear to any right-thinking person that a kick to the head can have life-threatening consequences.

“The lengthy and vicious assault inflicted by you was most certainly one which risked his life.

“I acknowledge that at the time you were only 18 and the Guidelines on Sentencing Young People apply.

“I accept that young people are generally less able to exercise good judgement when making decisions.

“This, however, was not an incident which required the exercise of fine judgement.

“This incident was shocking and that would have been plain to any normal person and any normal 18 year old.

“You embarked on a lengthy vicious assault, returning time and time again to kick and stamp on your victim's head.

“I have to express not only the court's but society's abhorrence to this shocking level of violence.”