A British movie actor was viciously headbutted after he stepped in to stop a thug from battering his crying partner.
Peter Mullan intervened between Dylan Bennet, 29, and the woman near the O2 Academy venue in Glasgow on September 20 last year.
The actor – who starred as Death Eater Corban Yaxley in the Harry Potter films – was left with a head injury as a result of the attack.
Bennet pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the assaults on Mullan and the woman and was jailed by Sheriff Iain Fleming for 18 months.
He had been spotted out in the street by security staff that morning clutching a bottle of vodka, and CCTV later captured him sprinting towards his partner near the venue.
Bennet was then seen seizing the woman’s neck and violently shaking her back and forth while holding her for 10 seconds.
Fiscal Josh Dowie told Glasgow Sheriff Court how the star of Trainspotting and Braveheart tried to come to the woman’s aid at the hands of violent Bennet.
Mullan, who also starred in Amazon’s The Lord of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, ‘noticed the woman to be upset and crying’.
Scottish actor Peter Mullan was viciously headbutted after he stepped in to stop a thug from battering his crying partner last September
The actor – who starred as Death Eater Corban Yaxley in the Harry Potter films (pictured) – was left with a head injury as a result of the attack
He asked a member of security staff at the venue if the woman was ‘OK’ and was told the police had been called.
Mr Dowie went on: ‘Mr Mullan turned around towards Bennet and the woman to see him assaulting her.
‘He turned back and intervened, then stood between them.
‘Mr Mullan told Bennet that the police had been called and at this point he was headbutted.’
Bennet also brandished a glass bottle at both Mullan and his partner during the incident.
When police arrived, Bennet was being held on the ground by the O2 Academy security staff.
The court heard how the star of Trainspotting (pictured) tried to come to the woman’s aid at the hands of violent Bennet
Dylan Bennet pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the assaults on Mullan and the woman and was jailed by Sheriff Iain Fleming for 18 months
Tony Callaghan, defending, told the court that Bennet had been at a party taking a cocktail of alcohol and drugs through the night.
The lawyer said: ‘He went to get more drink and returned to the party.
‘An argument developed between himself and his partner, but they don’t know what it was about.
‘He deeply regrets his involvement in this incident, especially to the innocent bystander.’
