A FEUD between two families led to two men appearing in Court after they challenged others to fight and brandished a golf club outside a home.

Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday that two witnesses observed Brian Gregson posting a letter through the door of another family one afternoon.

The letter read: "You have to come home sometime, come to my door, cowards."

Other family members returned home in the evening and observed Gregson walking down the street towards the address.

One of the witnesses then went out on the street to speak to Gregson but he appeared to be under the influence of alcohol.

At that time Gregson and Richard Reece then ran up to the family’s home and attempted to break-in but the door was locked.

Depute fiscal, Alistair McDermid, explained that Gregson appeared to have taken a golf club and then made his way to the living room window shouting at witnesses.

He stated he would "f***ing kill them" and called them "f***ing cowards".

The accused continued to fight and share and challenge the witnesses to fight. The incident was recorded by another witness on her mobile which was passed on to police officers when they attended, and they arrested both Gregson and Richardson.

It was unknown the value of damage that had been caused to the window.

Richardson, 22, of Geatons Road, Lochgelly, previously admitted that on March 25 at Kirktoun Park, he did without reasonable excuse, wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property belonging to another and did damage a door window by repeatedly kicking it, behave in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm in that he did shout, swear, challenge persons to fight and brandish a golf club, and did without reasonable excuse or lawful authority, have with him an offensive weapon, namely a golf club.

Gregson, 41, of Kirktoun Park, Ballingry, previously admitted that on March 25, at a property at the same address, he did behave in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm in that he did shout, swear brandish a metal pole and challenge the lieges to fight.

Defence solicitor for Mr Richardson, Iain McCafferty, explained that effectively two families within the street were not getting on and that there had been an incident earlier in the day where Richardson and his brother were on the receiving end.

"There was an anxiety that something was going to happen later in the day," he said.

"He cannot go on acting this way and he hopes if the situation was to arise again he would not act in that way.

"I am not aware of any further incidents."

Defence solicitor for Mr Gregson, Alexander Flett, added: "Mr Gregson felt somewhat aggrieved by what happened.

"He had been told that his sons had been assaulted by the other family members."

Mr Flett explained when one of the members ran out to Gregson he thought it was more sinister and he did not simply want to just talk to him.

"His intention was to walk past and go to the shop," Mr Flett said.

They had also not been able to ascertain if any police action has been taken against the other family.

Sheriff Craig McSherry imposed a community payback order of 150 hours of unpaid for each accused.