A CRUISE liner worker who admitted a pool cue attack in a Peebles bar has been ordered to carry out 200 hours unpaid work at Selkirk Sheriff Court.

Thirty one year old Callum MacMichael of Govans Way, Cardrona, pleaded guilty to striking a man on the head with a pool cue to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.

The victim was left with a deep cut above his upper lip.

The incident happened in the Central Bar in Peebles on August 29 last year.

Fiscal Kirsty Lyons said: "It was around midnight and the victim was playing pool when the accused made an approach.

" He was heard to say 'I am going to do him because he is a paedo'.

"The accused was seen to pick up the pool cue and swung it at him hitting him on the head and breaking the cue."

The victim was taken to Borders General Hospital for treatment to a wound on his upper lip.

Defence lawyer Mat Patrick said it was a 3cm laceration to the upper lip.

Sheriff Peter Paterson said: "This is a serious assault and the court cannot ignore that but I have taken into account your lack of record."