A man has been jailed for four years after a number of assaults in Shotts
link!The dad of two said he’d come out of the shower and was wearing only a towel at the time.He needed stitches in wounds to his nose and above his eye.The victim, 30, told prosecutor Michael Macintosh: “I was sitting at the back door, having a fag.“I just had a towel around me as I had been in the shower.“I heard a big bang – the gate sounded as if it had been broken through.“The next thing I woke up in a pool of blood with my neighbours trying to help me.”The victim said he was taken to hospital for treatment, adding: “I couldn’t see my weans for two weeks because of the state of my face.“It wouldn’t have been nice for them to see it.“I told them I had fallen down the stairs.