A man who attacked his drinking buddy with a vodka bottle in Stevenston has been jailed.

Taylor Gorman, 22, pleaded guilty to the assault in the town's Glencairn Street on September 25 last year. 

Appearing from custody at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court for sentencing, he was charged with causing serious injuries and permanent disfigurement. 

The court heard how Gorman and three others had been drinking alcohol in a property on Glencairn Street when he got into an altercation with a male witness. 

He smashed a bottle of vodka over the man's head, and kicked him on the head after he fell to the ground. 

The fiscal depute told the court that the two then rolled about the floor, with the argument starting due to Gorman accusing the man of having sexual relations with his partner.

One of the female witnesses went across to the nearby JET petrol station for help, but staff would not let her in as her body and head were covered in blood. 

Staff at the petrol station phoned the police, who arrived at the address and arrested Gorman for the assault. 

Gorman suffered cuts to his hand, whilst the male witness had cuts to his arms, the back of his  head and neck.

Gorman, described in court papers as a prisoner at HMP Kilmarnock, told the police that the male witness had assaulted him, and he then fell onto the vodka bottle, causing it to smash.

His lawyer told the court that a significant quantity of alcohol had been consumed during the afternoon, and that his client had already spent a considerable period in custody over the matter.

However, Sheriff Murdoch Mactaggart sentenced Gorman to 10 months in jail, saying that custody was "the only appropriate outcome". 

His sentence was backdated to February 13.