AN INNERLEITHEN man who struck a man on the head with a beer glass in a local public house has been ordered to pay his victim £1500 compensation at Selkirk Sheriff Court.
Thirty six year old Graeme Ellis of Strand, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault to severe injury following the incident in the Tweedside Hotel in High Street on March 12 last year.
The first offender admitted throwing the contents of a beer glass over the man, pushing him on the body, striking him on the head with a glass causing it to smash and repeatedly punching him on the head.
The court was told an argument broke out fuelled by too much alcohol.
Pieces of glass remain in the victim's eyelid but he would be unable to have an operation as it would cause a droopy eye lid.
In addition to the compensation Ellis was ordered to carry out 280 hours of unpaid work.
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