A 23-YEAR-OLD from Cardenden bit a policeman during a disturbance at his brother’s Hogmanay wedding.

Reiss Wilson also kicked a second officer and was arrested just hours after the New Year bells at the function at a Crossford hotel.

Wilson, of Carden Castle Park, Cardenden, appeared in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on January 1, at the Keavil House Hotel, he assaulted a police officer by biting him on the arm.

He also assaulted a second officer by kicking him on the leg.

He further admitted he threatened to murder one of the officers and to set the other officer on fire.

Depute fiscal Zahra Bhatti said Wilson had been attending his brother’s wedding and an argument started in the hotel in the early hours of the morning.

Police were called at 2.40am and found Wilson lying on the ground outside the hotel with a bloody nose.

“He was being restrained on the ground by his brother,” she added.

Wilson was being helped up by the police when he bit one of the officers on the arm.

He then kicked another constable to the leg and made death threats.

Defence solicitor Calum Harris said: “He was at the wedding and had passed out earlier in the evening because he had too much to drink.

“Others tried to wake him up and he became irate. A general disagreement between the guests at the wedding had then broken out.

“He accepts he was out of control. The police had been called because he had knocked his head through a window, had blood coming from his face and there was general concern for him.

“He’s very apologetic. He doesn’t have a full recollection of events but was shocked and appalled to hear the comments he’d made.”

Sheriff William Gilchrist told Wilson: “Drink’s not an excuse.”

He imposed a community payback order with 80 hours of unpaid work and also fined Wilson £520.