SEAT CHUCK ULTRA JAILED

Aberdeen fan gets 18 months for hurling missile onto pitch

- FIONNUALA BOYLE

A FOOTBALL thug who injured his own team's player after throwing part of a seat has been jailed for 18 months.

David Gowans, 32, threw the projectile onto the pitch following a Premiership match between Aberdeen and Dundee United at Tannadice on May 17.

It struck Aberdeen's Jack MacKenzie, who had gone to the area of the ground in front of the travelling Aberdeen fans to thank them for their support.

The defender suffered lacerations above and below his left eye and has been left "permanently disfigured" by the incident.

Father-of-one Gowans, who had been working as an "offshore operator" at the time, had been a member of the Aberdeen ultras supporters group. He admitted culpable and reckless conduct in October.