A FORMER carer has been jailed for 17 months for an attack on an 80-year-old man in his own home.

Lyndsay Stirling, 28, battered frail Daniel Martin shortly after the great grandfather had returned from a Hogmanay party.

Yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court Sheriff John Beckett QC told Stirling, a mother-of-one: "You assaulted an 80-year-old man in his own home. He was a complete stranger and he did you no harm.

"In fact he may have done you kindness. We will never know because he has been left traumatised, and you can't remember."

Defence counsel for Stirling, Margaret Breslin said: "She was heavily under the influence of alcohol and suffered a blackout. She can't remember assaulting Mr Martin.

"What happened to him was truly shocking. She is utterly ashamed and offers her apology to the court."

Stirling spent last December 31 drinking with her husband and other relatives at a city centre bar.

But she left after a row and ended up in Easterhouse -after a taxi driver dropped her off there when she could not pay her fare.

Mr Martin meantime had been at a neighbour's house for the bells before his daughter Agnes helped him back to the home he shared with her.

The OAP's daughter returned home, spotted Stirling before finding her father bruised and dishevelled in his torn pyjamas on the floor.

Other relatives quickly arrived and asked why she was there. Stirling claimed Mr Martin was her step dad before then insisting she was his home help.

She raced out of the house and climbed a fence, but was detained by the family until police arrived.