A Perth kickboxing champion was spared jail after he attacked another teenager on a local housing estate.
Perth Sheriff Court was told that after pushing the victim to the ground, 18-year-old Shay Barnett continued to punch him.
Sheriff William Wood told him: “In these circumstances I have given some serious consideration to locking you up, notwithstanding you are a first offender.”
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But there was “sufficient, just” in a background report to persuade him to impose a direct alternative to custody.
He told the accused to confine his skills to the ring as he had used them against someone not as well qualified as he was.
And he warned him that any future licence he might need to participate in the sport could be “at risk” because of the assault, depending on the view taken by the governing body.
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Barnett, of Tweedsmuir Road, admitted seizing the other man on the body and pushing him to the ground in Rannoch Road on September 14, 2019.
He then repeatedly punched him on the head, to his injury.
Solicitor Paul Ralph said there had been problems between the two men but it did not go as far as “bad blood.”
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“He knows himself he should be able to control himself. He shouldn’t be getting into bother of this nature.
“He’s in the process of becoming a more mature young man.”
Sheriff Wood ordered Barnett to complete 100 hours of unpaid work in the next 12 months.
The accused, who won titles at the open world kickboxing championships in Barnsley last year, will also have to pay the attack victim £300 compensation, at the rate of £50 a month.
