A 24-year-old man has been jailed for a violent street assault on his mother in Cowdenbeath.

The woman was kicked on the chin and knocked to the ground by Grant Lawrie.

It was not the first time that Lawrie, of Hillview, Cowdenbeath, had attacked his mum.

On a previous occasion she was “screaming with fear” when he kicked her and hit her with a mobile phone because he was unhappy about the temperature of a bath she had run for him.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Lawrie admitted that on February 12 at Cowdenbeath Leisure Centre car park, Pit Road, he assaulted his mother by seizing her by the neck, pushing her, kicking her on the head causing her to fall to the ground and attempting to kick her on the body, all to her injury.

Depute fiscal Catherine Stevenson said the incident occurred when the mum went out looking for Lawrie in a local pub and they got into an argument.

Lawrie then put his hands around her neck, pushed her back and kicked her to the chin, knocking her to the ground. He then tried to kick her again but missed as another family member intervened.

Defence solicitor Elaine Buist said her client has a “difficult relationship” with his mother.

He had “little to no recollection of the incident”, she added.

Lawrie had also repeatedly breached a community payback order imposed for a previous assault on his mum more than three years ago.

On that occasion, Lawrie attacked his mother in a row about the temperature of a bath.

Lawrie kicked his mother on the waist and she fell onto the couch. He then threw a mobile phone which struck her, causing a lump over her eye.

She told police he had been “pure raging” and was “foaming at the mouth”.

The mum had been “screaming with fear” during the incident. She called the police and when officers arrived, she was “hysterical”.

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Lawrie: “Two and a half years ago you were made subject of a community payback order and you’ve spectacularly failed to make inroads into it.

“It’s been breached three times and there are 231 hours of unpaid work outstanding.

“Then in February you again engaged in violent behaviour towards your mother. There comes a point when the court says, ‘enough is enough’.”

The sheriff jailed Lawrie for 10 months.