A shift worker who knocked three of another man's teeth out at a 70th birthday party at a bowling club has been spared jail.
Stewart Kirkham, 44, apparently mistook his victim for his dead brother before launching the assault at the club in Bo'ness, West Lothian.Falkirk Sheriff Court heard that the man he attacked, Alexander Kennedy, 53, had gone to the party with his girlfriend.
The 70th birthday event was for a member of Mr Kennedy's girlfriend's extended family.Prosecutor Cheryl Clark said that, as a result, Mr Kennedy didn't know many of the people present.About 9.30pm he went out to the designated smoking area at the front porch of the club to have a cigarette.Kirkham, who was already in the smoking area, began to speak to him,
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