TWO men attacked another man outside of a Glasgow shopping centre kicking and punching him repeatedly.  

Sean Hughes, 18, and Liam Murphy, 23, had been within a group of young people sitting on the steps outside of Buchanan Galleries on July 14, 2022.

At around 10pm the male victim and another person left Cineworld on Renfrew Street.

The pair walked around to the steps on Buchanan Street where they saw the group.

Hughes and Murphy began to shout at them which made them feel threatened so they began to leave.

As the two people left, the group asked them for a cigarette but they told them they didn’t have any and continued to try and walk away.

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A conversation then took place at which time Hughes and Murphy attacked the man punching him to the head, face, and body.

As this happened the man staggered and fell to the ground.

He managed to get to his feet and words were exchanged. Hughes and Murphy then punched the man to the face again.

After that, Hughes took the man’s phone and kicked it causing damage. The phone was valued at £600.

Hughes, of Haghill, appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court recently for sentencing after pleading guilty to three charges.

These included assaulting a man by repeatedly punching and kicking him on the head and body causing him to fall onto the ground to his injury, maliciously picking up a mobile phone and kicking it causing damage, and breaching a bail condition not to enter the Glasgow city centre exclusion zone without a reasonable excuse.

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Murphy, of Maryhill, also appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court recently after pleading guilty to assaulting a man by repeatedly punching and kicking him on the head and body causing him to fall to the ground to his injury.

Hughes’ lawyer told the court that his client accepted his involvement and “made no excuses”.

The defence solicitor added: “He accepts that he shouldn’t have been in the town centre at the time, he says he had been travelling.

“He accepts on this occasion that he consumed alcohol. There hasn’t been offending for a long time and he is engaging with a deferred sentence."

Murphy’s lawyer told the court that his client also accepted his involvement in the incident.

Sheriff Louise Arroll put Hughes on a structured deferred sentence for three months.

Murphy’s sentencing was deferred for three months for him to be of good behaviour and for social work reports to be prepared.