A BIG issue seller assaulted a man with his dog lead.

Christopher Guild was attacked himself by the man and another woman before he decided to take revenge.

Guild, 32, of Robert Smith Court, Lumphinnans, appeared from custody for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He previously admitted that on March 12, 2015, at High Street, Dunfermline, he did assault a man and did strike him with a dog lead to his injury and did assault a woman and did scratch her on the body to her injury.

He also plead guilty to failing to appear for a Court appearance in March 2 and that on May 9, 2015, at High Street, Dunfermline, 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 and swear at his partner, brandish a bottle, threaten violence to his partner and threatened to stub a lit cigarette in her eye.

Depute fiscal, Azrah Yousaf, said that around 3pm on March 12, 2015, Guild was in a physical confrontation with the complainers and was brought to the ground.

After he was shouting, swearing and swinging a dog lead about. One person tried to stop him and was struck by the lead.

When the police attended they could see the male had a cut to his head and the female had a scratch to her hand.

Defence solicitor, Lee Qumsky, said his client was selling the big issue on the High Street the day before when someone had entered into an argument with him over a bottle of alcohol.

That person's two friends then came looking for him on the day in question and both of them assaulted him.

"An independent witness has said that both complainers were attacking him and looked like they were trying to gauge his eyes out," Mr Qumsky said.

"Another witness explained that the female approached Guild and just started hitting him while the male got him to the ground.

"They left but he then went over to them and started hitting them with the lead.

"He reacted to this nasty assault but accept that there was gap in his attack so it was not in self-defence, but it was in provocation."

Sheriff Alison McKay backdated Guild's 30-day imprisonment as a sentence for his breach, placed him on a supervision order for 12 months and ordered him to pay a £100 fine.