A 23-year-old man, who subjected his former partner to domestic abuse, has been jailed.

The woman was grabbed, shouted at and thrown on to a sofa.

Ryan Hunter, of Ballingry Crescent, Ballingry, had originally avoided a jail sentence but that changed when he breached his community payback order.

As a result, Hunter appeared back in the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He previously admitted that between July 23 and 28 last year at Main Street, Lumphinnans, he engaged in an abusive course of conduct towards his former partner.

He attended at her home uninvited, shouted, swore, made offensive remarks, seized her by the clothing and threw her on to a sofa, seized her TV remote control and broke it, then punched a wall, damaging it.

He also admitted breaching a community payback order.

The original sentence last April was a community payback order with two years of supervision and Hunter was to take part in the Caledonian Programme for domestic abuse offenders.

He was also made subject to a two-year non-harassment order.

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Hunter: “The report raises serious questions about your willingness to comply in any meaningful way with the community payback order.”

He revoked the order and sent Hunter to jail for five months instead.