Inverness nurse assaulted while tending to injured man
An off-duty nurse was struck on the head while helping an injured man lying in Inverness High Street.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that Daniel Bryant (32) assaulted the female nurse who had been cycling through the city centre and had stopped to assist the casualty just after midnight on April 5 last year.
Fiscal depute Shamiela Ghafar told Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood at Inverness Sheriff Court that Bryant approached the injured man, with the nurse struck on her right side and temple when she came between the casualty and Bryant.
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Ms Ghafar said: “Police were contacted and she had minor bruising to the side of her face.”
Bryant’s defence solicitor, John MacColl, said: “Mr Bryant had been the victim of a nasty assault himself by the individual on the ground.
“He was disorientated, trying to get to the individual. He apologises unreservedly to the victim who was an entirely innocent bystander.”
Bryant, of The Avenue, Newton Abbott, Devon, pleaded guilty to assault.
Sheriff Fleetwood ordered him to pay the nurse £250 in compensation and fined him £640.
