Kevin Casey is led away from Edinburgh High Court on Monday to serve his prison sentence. (Pic: Ciaran Donnelly)

Orkney man Kevin Casey was jailed for five and a half years today after inflicting “shocking” injuries on a man in a street attack in Kirkwall.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that on Feburary 1 in Bridge Street, Kirkwall, Casey beat Michael Firth so savagely that he suffered facial damage normally seen by doctors in car crash cases.

Originally due to stand trial for the attempted murder of another man, Barry Rendall, on Boxing Day 2001, Casey, of Gaitnip, St Ola, admitted the reduced charge of attacking Mr Rendall at the Strynd, Kirkwall, to his injury and assaulting Mr Firth to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.