Highland man sentenced to 18 months in prison for attack on two men as sheriff court told 'the red mist descended and he lost the plot'
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A man has been jailed for 18 months after attacking two men in a Culloden house earlier this year.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told today that 37-year-old Charles Maclennan had received a threatening phone call the night before the assaults on May 17.
Defence lawyer Gordon Nicol said Maclennan, whose address was given as Inverness Prison, arrived at the property in Galloway Drive to find the man accused of making the threats sleeping on the couch.
"The red mist descended and he lost the plot," Mr Nicol told Sheriff Ian Cruickshank.
"He had gone to the house expecting to have a social occasion with Jason Mackenzie alone and discovered Colin Sanders as well.
"He started punching him and then Mr Mackenzie became involved and punches were thrown. He accepts he shouldn't have done it."
When Maclennan was arrested by police a short time later, he boasted: "I made a good job of them, didn't I?"
He then told the officers he knew their faces, he would find them when they were off duty and assault them, fiscal depute Robert Weir told the court.
Sheriff Cruickshank said Maclennan had a "horrendous record of previous convictions, including numerous for assault".
But he backdated the sentence to May 18 when Maclennan, who admitted two assaults to injury and one charge of threatening behaviour, was remanded.
The court was told Maclennan punched Mr Sanders several times as he lay asleep before turning his attention to Mr Mackenzie.
Maclennan unleashed a flurry of punches to Mr Mackenzie's face in the living room, followed him into the kitchen where more were inflicted, leaving his victim covered in blood.
He then attacked Mr Mackenzie a third time when he fled back to the living room.
