A WOMAN sustained a fractured jaw after being violently attacked by her brother.

Scott Bowe, 30, of Ochilview Drive, High Valleyfield, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He previously admitted that on June 17 last year at Daly Gardens, High Valleyfield, he assaulted his sister by seizing her by the throat and punching her on the face to her severe injury.

Defence solicitor Gordon Martin said: “It was a single punch I believe and clearly there is no excuse for that.”

He added: “He had not been in trouble since 2011 and is in full-time employment.”

Sheriff Craig McSherry imposed a six-month restriction of liberty order. He also ordered Bowe to pay his sister £1,000 compensation.