A 15-YEAR-OLD boy was severely injured and left disfigured after being attacked by a man in Kincardine.

The assailant was 25-year-old Ben Hutchison, of Victoria Street, Dunfermline.

He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court and submitted a guilty plea.

He admitted that on October 17 last year, at Elphinstone Street, Kincardine, he assaulted a 15-year-old boy by punching him on the head, causing him to fall to the ground to his severe injury and disfigurement.

Sheriff Susan Duff called for reports and Hutchison will be sentenced on December 9.