An incident outside a Fife pub resulted in a customer sustaining a double fracture of the leg, a trial has heard.
Trouble spilled out into the street from the Burgh Arms, Inverkeithing, where a customer was accused of bullying behaviour and trying to pick a fight.
In the dock at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Tuesday was Angus Pauline, 27, of Alma Street, Inverkeithing, who at one point during the disturbance took off his T-shirt and started beating his chest.
With one customer having to be held back from attacking Pauline, another, William Smith, was being chased around the street but the incident ended with him in hospital suffering a badly broken leg.
Mr Smith, 44, told the court that his leg had been “snapped in half”. He claimed he had been standing outside the pub having a smoke when Pauline threatened to punch him.
Defence agent Russel McPhate put it to Mr Smith: “You were just showing off. You were jumping over the bench and you fell. It was just stupidity.”
Mr Smith replied, “No, it was raw aggression. He had a go at the whole pub.” He claimed that Pauline came at him with a “ferocious roar”.
After a two-day trial, the jury delivered a not proven verdict on the charge Pauline assaulted Mr Smith by kicking him on the leg, causing him to fall to the ground to his severe injury on High Street, Inverkeithing, on October 26 2013.
However, he was found guilty of a separate charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting and swearing. Sheriff Charles MacNair fined Pauline, who works as a chef, £750.