A 24-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced for punching and knocking out a woman during a row in a Dunfermline street.

The victim told a jury trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court that she had sustained a broken jaw.

Sean Campbell, formerly of Lauder Street, Dunfermline, now of Castle Avenue, Crosshill, appeared for sentencing.

He was found guilty of a charge that on January 16, 2020, at Robertson Road, Dunfermline, under provocation, he assaulted a woman by punching her on the face, causing her to fall to the ground and rendered her unconscious, to her severe injury.

The victim told the trial she had seen Campbell walking along the street in front of her and shouted to him to keep away from her home and family.

She said she was then punched and knocked out. “He was trying to pull a carrier bag from me. Then he punched me and broke my jaw.”

Under cross-examination, defence solicitor Alexander Flett put it to the witness that she had been “steaming drunk” and screaming abuse at his client. She denied this.

The woman said that she was walking back home from the Queen Margaret Hospital when the incident occurred.

Sheriff Susan Duff imposed a community payback order with two years of supervision. She also ordered Campbell to pay £300 compensation to the woman.