TWO schoolboys were both punched in the face by a drunken man they were trying to help during an incident in Cardenden.

The attacker, 22-year-old Jack Angel, who was breaching a court order by even being in Cardenden, has now been jailed.

Angel, of the Oasis Project, Ellon Road, Kirkcaldy, admitted the offences previously at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

Having been granted bail on July 7 not to enter Cardenden, he breached this on November 6 when he was in Station Road and Denfield Avenue.

He also admitted that on November at the rear of Denfield Avenue, he assaulted two boys, both then aged 13, by punching each of them once on the head.

Angel had initially ignored the order banning him from Cardenden on Novembe 2.

He was arrested, granted bail on November 3 then breached the order again three days later when he assaulted the youngsters.

Depute fiscal Mat Piskorz said: “The boys saw the accused lying on a grass area and went over to see if he was okay.

“The accused then jumped up and punched one of the boys to the face. He then turned and punched the other boy in the face. He then ran away.”

When later charged, Angel said: “I woke up in the woods and people were kicking me. I thought I was being murdered so I punched f*** out of them.”

Defence solicitor Graham Inch said: “He was drinking too much at the time. He’d passed out. He now accepts the people there were trying to help him.”

Sheriff Charles Macnair told Angel: “These two boys had gone to your assistance, trying to help you and you assaulted both of them in a completely unprovoked attack.”

He jailed Angel for 283 days.

Angel had been given a community payback order recently with 275 hours of unpaid work for assaulting his partner in what was described by Sheriff Macnair as a “vicious” attack.