A FAMILY trip to the pub to watch football ended in a Dunfermline man cutting himself and being taken to hospital after taking a quantity of paracetamol.

In the bar George Cameron, 57, of Campbell Street, had an argument with his wife and they left and went home.

He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court after earlier admitting that on April 23 at a house in St Andrews Street, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner, shouted, swore, took his partner's mobile phone from her, threw it on the ground and damaged it, cut himself and took a quantity of medication.

Depute Fiscal Azrah Yousaf said Cameron had been married for 16 years but in the weeks before the incident, his wife had told him she no longer loved him.

They had gone to a pub to watch football with their two children and he had become argumentative and they returned home.

A neighbour overheard Cameron say he was going to lose it and he then told his wife he was going to kill himself.

During the disturbance, he took her phone, threw it and smashed it. He also got a knife and cut himself.

Police were called and when they arrived, Cameron was on the floor having appeared to have taken a quantity of Paracetamol.

He was taken to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy where cut marks to his stomachs were examined but did not require treatment.

Cameron told police things had "got out of hand" after his wife told him she didn't love him.

Solicitor Barbara Collie said her client had separated from his wife and accepted the relationship was over.

"He accepts he acted aggressively and takes full responsibility for his actions," she told the court. "He has shown remorse and feels embarrassed. He fully accepts the harm he could have caused and the fear experienced by his wife and children."

Sheriff Charles Macnair deferred sentence for six months for Cameron to be of good behaviour.