TWO men have been jailed after a street fight in Galashiels resulted in a man falling through a shop window.

Selkirk Sheriff Court was told the victim thought he was going to bleed to death after the injuries he sustained when the window was smashed. 

Sheriff Kevin McCarron said it was only the quick-thinking of police officers who arrived on the scene in High Street and drove the victim straight to hospital that resulted in the man getting prompt treatment to his injuries or the consequences could have been worse.

He described it as an "unprovoked assault" on the victim by the two men who had been watching a European Championship football match in a local public house in June 2021. 

Sheriff McCarron said if the men had deliberately intended for the victim to be pushed through the window he would have imposed a substantial custodial sentence.

The jury convicted 29-year-old Konrad Fraser, of Galabank Street, Galashiels, and Gerard Moore, also 29, of Grieve Avenue, Jedburgh, of assaulting the man to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and permanent impairment following a two-day trial in August.

But they found him guilty of an amended assault charge by repeatedly punching him on the head and causing the man to collide with the window instead of pushing him through the window. 

Moore – who previously served a prison sentence – was jailed for 18 months while first-offender Fraser was sentenced to 12 months.