A WOMAN was injured after being hit by her partner in Cardenden.

The assailant was 26-year-old Scott Imrie, of Lochty Avenue, Kinglassie.

At Dunfermline Sheriff Court he admitted that on January 3 at Carden Avenue, Cardenden he assaulted his partner by striking her on the head with his hand to her injury.

Sheriff Craig McSherry imposed a community payback order with two years of supervision and participation in the Caledonian Programme for domestic offenders.