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Boxing: Harrison 'ready to rebuild life'.
(From The Journal)
FORMER world champion Scott Harrison was released from prison yesterday in time to celebrate New Year.
The 31-year-old was freed after serving four months behind bars. He emerged from the main gate of Barlinnie prison in Glasgow just after 8am, dressed in a grey suit and white shirt and carrying a plastic bag with his belongings.
He refused to comment but gave a thumbs up sign as he was driven away in a red taxi.
Harrison was jailed for a total of 10 months on a series of charges. The boxer was imprisoned on September 2 for two months for assaulting his girlfriend and a police officer, four months for drink driving and two months for breaking a night time curfew, a condition of bail while drink driving. He received an additional two months the following week after he admitted punching a stranger in the face on a night out.
His prison term was reduced by two months in December and he was released after serving half his sentence.
At the Court of Appeal in Edinburgh, Lord Kingarth ruled that the sentences for the drink-driving and bail ...
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