A MAN who humiliated a woman by stripping her naked from the waist down in a pub filled with revellers has been jailed for almost two years.

 

Andrew Smart, 31, was captured on CCTV holding the girl up as he kissed her although she then fell on to the floor.

As she lay drunk on the ground on the mezzanine level of Coopers Bar on Great Western Road in Glasgow, he knelt down by her head before moving to the other end of her body and stripping her from the waist down.

A member of staff pulled him away from the 25-year-old and an ambulance was contacted but Smart left the pub, despite being told to stay.

At Glasgow Sheriff Court Smart, from Yoker, pled guilty to sexually assaulting the girl - who cannot be named - on February 25, 2012.

He admitted that he kissed her while she was drunk and unable to consent, touched her and partially undressed her.

Yesterday Sheriff John McCormick jailed Smart for 22 months and imposed an extended sentence meaning he will be supervised for six months after his release.

The court heard the girl had been socialising with friends that day and they decided to go on a pub crawl.

They ended up in Lismore pub on Dumbarton Road and the victim cannot remember much after that until she woke up in hospital hours later.

The group had become separated and around 9.30pm she and another friend went to Cooper's bar near Kelvinbridge.

Procurator fiscal depute Pat Callander said Smart and his friend were already there and through chatting it was realised that the girl's friend and Smart's friend had a mutual friend.

Ms Callander said that later in the evening the female kissed Smart outside the pub when they went out to smoke.

However other revellers in the pub later complained that a couple were "behaving inappropriately".

CCTV then captured Smart abusing the girl when she was too drunk to sit up by herself.

Smart took the girl's boots off, her trousers and her underwear before a member of staff moved him away from her. The female was lying naked from the waist down in the pub.

Smart was told to stay in the pub but left although was later traced through the CCTV and witnesses in pub.

Defence counsel Mark Moir said Smart remembers kissing the girl outside but cannot remember anything that happened after.

But, that after being made aware of all the evidence he pled guilty.

Mr Moir added: "He is horrified at what he has done."