A MAN bit a police sergeant on the hand.

On Thursday, fiscal depute Graham McLachlan told Alloa Sheriff Court that Kenneth McFarlane chomped the cop in the town's Tullibody Road on February 17 this year.

The 31-year-old accused, of The Charrier in Menstrie, lashed out during the course of his arrest for another matter.

Defending, Mike Lowrie explained that McFarlane had received a lot of money from backdated benefits and had consumed alcohol with his partner on the day of the incident.

After allegedly being assaulted by his partner, the accused decided to walk to his father's house quite some distance away. When there was no response at his dad's, he walked off again.

At this point, McFarlane believed that a nearby policeman was following him.

He asked: "What do you want?"

The officer replied: "Nothing."

Following this exchange, the copper received a radio call to apprehend the accused. It was then that the situation "got out of hand".

Sheriff David Mackie took into account the time McFarlane had already spent in jail for the offence. Appearing from custody, the accused was sentenced to four months in prison backdated to February 20.