A new mum who carried out two brutal assaults has been warned she is in the “last chance saloon”.
Charlene Hall, 22, of Poplar Road in Methil, appeared for sentencing at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
She had previously been convicted of assaulting a man at a property in the town’s Dunearn Drive on May 6 2017 by repeatedly kicking and punching him to his injury.
She had been ordered to carry out unpaid work for the offence but breached the order and was hauled back to court.
She also attacked a 15-year-old girl on April 21 last year during an incident on the High Street.
Hall repeatedly punched the youngster on the head and grabbed and pulled her hair before kneeing her in the head.
Sentence for the second attack had been deferred after Hall fell pregnant with her first child. She gave birth in May.
Defence solicitor Martin McGuire told the court his client was reluctant to wear an electronic ankle tag because of her child but accepted it was a decision for the court.
When Sheriff Alastair Thornton queried her reasons, Mr McGuire said: “She doesn’t want it visible to others when out doing activities with her son.”
The sheriff replied: “So it’s an issue of embarrassment rather than anything else.”
Sheriff Thornton agreed to impose unpaid work rather than a restriction of liberty officer.
She was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work for the attack on the male victim. Sentence on the teenager girl assault was deferred for three months to see if Hall was able to be of good behaviour and to comply with the community payback order.
However, Sheriff Thornton had a start warning for her.
“You are in last chance saloon here,” he said.
“If you fail to comply with the unpaid work order, there will be no other alternative but for you to go to prison.
“You will have to accept what the consequences of that happening and what it that will mean for your newborn child.
“I’m going to impose a fresh community payback order of 200 hours of unpaid work and fix a review to ensure you are complying with it.
“I’m going to allow you, because of your new child, eight months to complete the order. If you have not been of good behaviour or if you have failed to complete the unpaid work then there will be a prison sentence imposed upon you in both cases.
“I don’t think I can be any clearer. Don’t let yourself, your child or the court down.”