A DRUNKEN row after returning from working away resulted in a coach driver being ordered to do unpaid work this week.

Andrew Cowan, 29, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday after earlier admitting that on June 13, at a house in Small Street, Lochgelly, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by repeatedly shouting and acting in an aggressive manner.

He also, at Main Street, Lochgelly, resisted, obstructed or hindered police offices in execution of their duty, then in execution of their duty, by struggling violently with them and repeatedly lashing out with his arms and legs.

A third charge of breaching a bail condition on July 20 was also admitted.

Depute fiscal, Azrah Yousaf, said on returning home, Cowan began to drink and became drunk quite quickly.

"During the course of the evening, he was being abusive towards his partner," she said.

"He began to tell her it was time her mother left and there were raised voices in the bedroom between the two."

The argument continued and police were called at around 4.45am.

Whilst they were doing a welfare check on his partner, Cowan, of Hillview Cottages, Ratho, Edinburgh, became agitated and started to struggle with the officers. He was eventually restrained with leg restraints.

Defence solicitor, Rosni Joshi, said alcohol had been consumed by both parties and contributed to the escalation of the argument.

"He accepts he behaved that way – it was out of character for him," she said. "It was not his intention to be confrontational. He simply panicked. He didn't intend to cause any harm.

"He fully regrets that behaviour."

Sheriff Charles Macnair said he was prepared to deal with the matter by way of a non-custodial sentence.

"This was a nasty incident involving domestic abuse and that will not be tolerated," he told Cowan.

"Then you struggle violently for a significant time with police officers and having been placed on bail, you breached bail and it is to be noted that you have a previous conviction for breaching a special condition of bail from 2010."

For the original offence, he placed Cowan on a community payback order requiring him to carry out 190 hours of unpaid work within six months. For the breach of bail, he was ordered to do 101 hours of work within nine months with the sentences to run consecutively.