Two caged for brutal assault at music fest

Man left with horrific eye injuries at Scone’s Rewind show

- GRANT MCCABE

Two thugs who left a university lecturer blinded in one eye after an attack at a music festival have been jailed for a total of 10 years.

Patrick Kerr (33) and Simon Tierney (38) turned on the man, who also needed a metal plate inserted in his jaw following the assault.

The crime occurred at the Rewind Festival at Scone Palace in Perthshire on July 22, 2023.

The 53-year-old victim had been there with his family. He did not know the pair, but had “polite” conversations with them at one stage.

The victim had then decided to walk away from an “aggressive” Tierney. He was set upon after refusing the offer of a chip from the thug.

The duo were today sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

They had earlier separately admitted to assaulting the man to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment.

Tierney-who ran a gas fitting company - had pleaded guilty at a hearing last summer.