A FIGHT broke out in a Rosyth street after trouble in a nearby pub and resulted in a man being assaulted and bitten on the body.

In the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court was Ryan Douglas, 25, of Sherbrooke Road, Rosyth.

He admitted that on March 27 at Queensferry Road, Rosyth, he assaulted a male by repeatedly punching him on the head and body and bit him on the body to his injury.

The Crown had accepted that Douglas had acted under provocation although this was questioned by Sheriff Charles Macnair.

Depute fiscal Alex Piper said Douglas and his father had been in a pub in Queensferry Road. “There had been some trouble in the pub earlier but this was a separate incident. It’s accepted the complainer said something to the accused,” added the depute.

Douglas then began to repeatedly punch the complainer on the head and body then bit him on the body. This left a bite mark on the victim’s chest which broke the skin.

Douglas later told the police: “Aye, I did bite him.”

Defence solicitor Roshni Joshi said the comment made to her client by the complainer was: “Let’s fight with each other. You and me are fighting.”

Sheriff Macnair said: “A square go is not provocation and it’s not self-defence.”

Ms Joshi said “derogatory comments” had been made to her client and his son. However, her client’s recollection was affected by his level of intoxication.

She her client, who worked as a chef, had expressed “remorse and shame” for the offence. “He knows if he avoids custody it will be by the skin of his teeth,” she added.

Sheriff Macnair said: “I’m told by the Crown that it’s accepted this was under provocation but it was not significant provocation.”

He added that anyone who took up a challenge to fight had to accept responsibility for the violence inflicted.

He imposed a community payback order with 190 hours of unpaid work.