Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 19, 2024 8:59:06 GMT
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A former Highland teen boxing champion carried out a series of vicious unprovoked attacks against three men, knocking one unconscious and biting another’s ear so badly he has been left permanently disfigured.
But despite the shocking nature of the offences – two of which were carried out while he was on bail for the other assault – Darrell Russell was not sent to prison.
Instead, the 21-year-old, who represented Scotland and had dreams of going to the Olympics, was given a community sentence.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told the first attack occurred in Nairn’s High Street on April 23 2021 when Russell encountered a man he did not know and for no apparent reason repeatedly punched him on the head and body, knocking him to the ground before seizing him by the neck.
Russell, of Woodlands Park, Westhill, Inverness, then repeatedly kicked and stamped him on the head and body, rendering him unconscious.
The other two assaults took place more than 18 months later, on November 27 2022, in Lombard Street, Inverness, and his victim was again someone he had no issue with.
He also repeatedly punched him on the head and body and repeatedly kicked him on the head and body, while he was on bail for the first attack.
The third came on the same evening in Castle Street at the Sobar pub when he struck his third victim on the body, pushed him to the floor and then bit his ear.
He admitted all three attacks.
archive.is/2024.02.19-071916/https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/crime-courts/6376496/highland-boxing-champion-darrell-russell-assaults/
This country’s finished. Judge needs his teeth kicked in.
A former Highland teen boxing champion carried out a series of vicious unprovoked attacks against three men, knocking one unconscious and biting another’s ear so badly he has been left permanently disfigured.
But despite the shocking nature of the offences – two of which were carried out while he was on bail for the other assault – Darrell Russell was not sent to prison.
Instead, the 21-year-old, who represented Scotland and had dreams of going to the Olympics, was given a community sentence.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told the first attack occurred in Nairn’s High Street on April 23 2021 when Russell encountered a man he did not know and for no apparent reason repeatedly punched him on the head and body, knocking him to the ground before seizing him by the neck.
Russell, of Woodlands Park, Westhill, Inverness, then repeatedly kicked and stamped him on the head and body, rendering him unconscious.
The other two assaults took place more than 18 months later, on November 27 2022, in Lombard Street, Inverness, and his victim was again someone he had no issue with.
He also repeatedly punched him on the head and body and repeatedly kicked him on the head and body, while he was on bail for the first attack.
The third came on the same evening in Castle Street at the Sobar pub when he struck his third victim on the body, pushed him to the floor and then bit his ear.
He admitted all three attacks.
archive.is/2024.02.19-071916/https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/crime-courts/6376496/highland-boxing-champion-darrell-russell-assaults/
This country’s finished. Judge needs his teeth kicked in.
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