A Glasgow sheriff jailed Ben Stanex, Scott Dragsness, and Andrew Graham for the attack on Bruce Craik outside Ibrox.

The guilty pleas are the convictions. Eighteen months, 12 months, and the banning orders are the sentences. A separate accused, Jamie Cameron, pleaded guilty the same day to a pitch incident. His case was deferred. It is not this sentence.

The Judiciary of Scotland published Sheriff Andrew McIntyre's sentencing remarks on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, in the case of Scott Dragsness, Ben Stanex, and Andrew Graham at Glasgow Sheriff Court. The remarks say he imposed custodial sentences for assault aggravated by religious prejudice. Dragsness was sentenced to 18 months. Stanex and Graham were each sentenced to 12 months. All three were given football banning orders for seven years. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said the same day that Dragsness, 55, and Stanex, 24, both of Belfast, and Graham, 21, of Dundonald, pled guilty to assault to danger of life. The sheriff said Dragsness's term started at two years, with three months of that attributable to the religious aggravation, and was then modified to 18 months because he pled guilty at the First Diet. He said Stanex and Graham each started at 16 months, with three months attributable to the religious aggravation, and that each term was modified to one year for an early plea. He said the sentences run from Oct. 7, the date they were remanded. The summary line on that judiciary page spells his name Scott Dragness once. The remarks, the Crown Office, the BBC, and the Daily Record spell it Dragsness.

The Crown Office said the three knocked a 48-year-old man to the ground as he tried to board a Celtic supporters' bus after the Scottish Cup quarter-final between Rangers and Celtic, then kicked and stamped on his head and body until he was unconscious in the road. It said a police drone over the dispersal from Ibrox recorded the attack, that a driver stuck in traffic recorded it as well, and that scans at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital showed a bleed on the brain. The BBC reported the tie was on March 8, that the fan was 48, and that the three targeted him as he tried to board the bus. The Daily Record named him Bruce Craik and reported prosecutor Lauren Aitchison said Stanex punched him to the head, then stamped on his head, and that Dragsness and Graham kicked him to the body. The sheriff did not split the blows that way. He said each man was criminally responsible for the acts of the others because they were part of a group with a common purpose, that the man was punched, fell, and was kicked and stamped while on the ground, and that abuse relating to religion was shouted during the attack. The Daily Record reported the prosecutor said the group shouted a sectarian slur. This account does not print that word. The Crown Office called the attack a hate crime motivated by religious prejudice.

The sheriff said Dragsness has a previous conviction for assault and other convictions for disorderly behaviour, of some age and of a less serious nature, and that Stanex and Graham are first offenders. He said both are under 25, so the sentencing guidelines for young people applied, and that he still found prison was the only sentence that could mark the crime. The banning orders bar each man, for seven years, from football grounds in the UK for matches involving a Scottish Professional Football League club, an English or Welsh league club, an English Conference club, or an international in Scotland, England, or Wales, and they extend to premises where those matches are televised and to journeys to and from matches. Each must report to a specified police station within five days and notify Police Scotland within seven days of a change of name, address, or passport. Fraser Gibson, Procurator Fiscal for Glasgow and Strathkelvin, said the man was subjected to "mindless sectarian thuggery" by three visitors to the city. The BBC and the Daily Record reported Superintendent Derrick Johnston said the attack was brutal and that he was in no doubt it would affect the victim for the rest of his life. The Daily Record reported Michael Anderson KC, for Stanex, said alcohol played a part and that his client described "10 seconds of madness." It reported Thomas Ross KC, for Dragsness, called the offence out of character, and Graeme Brown KC, for Graham, said his client's part was one kick to a man on the ground and that there was no plan to cause serious harm. Those are mitigation speeches. They are not the sentence.

The BBC reported that, on the same day, Jamie Cameron, 28, of Coatbridge, pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court to breach of the peace and assault for kicking a Celtic supporter during the pitch invasion at that match. It reported Sheriff Louise Arrol KC told him to prepare for custody, that sentence was deferred for background reports until next month, and that he was granted bail. Cameron's plea is a different accused and a different incident from the bus attack. It is not a sentence. The guilty pleas Dragsness, Stanex, and Graham entered are the convictions on the assault. The months in custody and the seven-year bans are the sentences Sheriff McIntyre imposed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.