A THUG has been jailed for more than two years after a bleach attack on two pub goers when they refused to buy chocolate from him.

Irate Michael Jones, 45, launched the attack on Richard McClelland and Jacqueline Sinclair at the Rendezvous pub in Scotstoun on November 28, last year.

Jones entered the pub with a bag of chocolates, left them at the entrance, then went round the staff and customers trying to sell them.

When Miss Sinclair and Mr McClelland both refused, Jones got angry and was asked to leave the premises.

Moments later, he returned with bleach and threw it over the pair before he raced off from the pub.  

At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Jones pled guilty to two charges of assaulting Sinclair and McClelland by throwing "a quantity of irritant liquid" on their faces, to their injury.

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Sheriff Paul Crozier jailed Jones for 26 months and said there was no other alternative sentence.

Around 5:55pm Jones went to the pub with a carrier bag where Miss Sinclair and Mr McClelland were drinking at the time.

CCTV captured Jones place the bag at the entrance of the pub and speak to people inside.

He was angry nobody would buy chocolates from him and was asked to leave.

Procurator fiscal depute Adele MacDonald said: “Whilst leaving, Jones collected his carrier bag and placed it on the steps outside the pub before he removed a bottle of bleach from his jacket and unscrewed the top.

“He then re-entered the pub and immediately threw liquid bleach from the bottle into faces of Richard McClelland and then Jacqueline Sinclair. 

“This was captured on CCTV. He then ran away from the pub.”

Mr McClelland washed his face and didn’t need any treatment.

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Miss Sinclair "felt burning" in her eye and was taken to hospital but left before treatment, against medical advice.

However, after discomfort in her eye the next day, she went to her doctor who referred her to the eye clinic at Gartnavel hospital. 

Miss MacDonald said: “The medical examination there that day revealed her eye had a PH level eight, alkaline when normally it should be PH seven.

“The doctor rinsed her eye to neutralise it.”

The police were called but Jones had left by the time they arrived but recognised him from CCTV as the person responsible for the attacks. 

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