RAF Lossiemouth serviceman sentenced for Moray group attack near Joanna’s Nightclub and Dicey’s Bar
An RAF serviceman has been sentenced for punching a colleague in the head “four or five times” while the victim was in a headlock.
Ethan Glasgow-Lattibeaudiere, then working at RAF Lossiemouth, broke the man’s nose in an attack near the popular Joanna’s Nightclub and Dicey’s Bar.
At Elgin Sheriff Court last Thursday, he was sentenced to 170 hours of community service and ordered to pay the victim £300.
The court heard that, at around 1.30am in Elgin on Saturday, September 2, 2023, Glasgow-Lattibeaudiere was “standing on City Arms Close with a group of males”.
Fiscal depute Karen Poke said that after an earlier “altercation” the victim “walked towards the men in an attempt to defuse the situation”.
However, upon reaching the group, an “unidentified male punched him to the face” before another man put the victim in a headlock.
Glasgow-Lattibeaudiere, who has since left the RAF, then punched the victim “four or five times” in the head.
After the assault, patrolling police officers found the injured RAF man “bleeding from the nose and mouth”.
The victim initially told officers “he had fallen over”, Ms Poke said, but after being told his injuries may need medical care he admitted he had been hit.
The fiscal depute added: “He said that he had been assaulted, but was reluctant to provide any details.”
Glasgow-Lattibeaudiere was eventually identified after police officers attended RAF Lossiemouth on September 12.
Solicitor Megan Lee said the attacker, now living in Greater Manchester, pleaded guilty to the attack “at the earliest opportunity”.
Her 23-year-old client, who travelled from Greater Manchester to be sentenced, was living in Lossiemouth and “supporting operations in Cyprus” at the time of the attack.
“He has left the RAF and is seeking other work,” Ms Lee added.
Sheriff Olga Pasportnikov ordered Glasgow-Lattibeaudiere to complete 170 hours of unpaid work in nine months, as an alternative to custody, along with paying the attack victim £300 in compensation.
The 23-year-old was also placed under social work supervision for 12 months.
