A violent thug who admitted battering his girlfriend as she slept has avoided a jail term.
Darren Gray launched the unprovoked attack as Hayley Canning lay in bed at the couple’s home in Glenrothes.
He climbed on top of her and repeatedly punched her on the head then ripped her top and pulled it against her neck.
The attack only ended when Gray’s brother hearing the disturbance came in and intervened.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard the pair were living at the address on Carleton Avenue, Glenrothes, with Gray’s father and brother, Curtis.
A party was held on December 7, with Miss Canning going to bed shortly after midnight.
She awoke to find Gray on top of her, punching her to the head and face.
The court heard she was bleeding profusely repeatedly having to spit out blood from her mouth and was confused as to why he was attacking her.
When Curtis Gray intervened a fight erupted between him and his brother, with Gray eventually leaving and calling 999 himself, admitting he had “battered his girlfriend”.
Miss Canning was left with swelling and bruising all over her face, head and back as a result of the attack.
There was also bruising around her neck as a result of the ripped top being used to pull on her.
Gray, 22, originally of Glenrothes but now a prisoner at Perth, pleaded guilty on indictment to a charge of assault to injury carried out on December 7 last year.
An allegation he had strangled Miss Gray to the danger of her life using the ripped top was removed from the indictment.
Defence agent Dewar Spence said: “He’s quite realistic about the sentence he will get and has not asked me to move for bail.”
Sheriff Alistair Thornton had earlier warned Gray that a jail term was “likely” as a result of the case.
But instead he imposed a community payback order with two years of supervision, 200 hours of unpaid work and required him to attend a domestic abuse groupwork programme.