A MAN been fined £200 after he assaulted his step-dad in the street, resulting in him needing six stitches to his eyebrow.

The 22-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week and pled guilty to one charge of Assault to Injury.

The court heard that the complainer’s partner is the mother of the accused and that she has two other children who were eight and 13 at the time of the offence. The family of four were living together in Stevenston and the accused was visiting at the time.

At 5.30pm on November 19 of last year, the complainer gave his 13-year-old step-daughter into trouble in relation to her conduct towards her younger brother.

The accused was not happy about the complainer giving his sister into trouble and said to his mum: “How can you let him speak to her like that?”

The complainer then went out to go to the shop. He was on Hayocks Road when he saw the accused walking towards him.

The accused called him a “scumbag” and then the complainer felt a strike to his left eyebrow which caused him to fall to the ground.

While the complainer was on the ground, the accused punched him.

The complainer got back on his feet and went home. His partner was in the house and saw him come home with a laceration to his eyebrow. They contacted police.

Officers attended the house and took details from the complainer and a description of the accused.

The police traced the accused on Hayocks Road. He was detained and taken to the police office where he admitted that he had headbutted the complainer and punched him. When officers asked if the complainer was injured, the accused pointed to his eyebrow.

The complainer went to Crosshouse Hospital and received six stitches to his eyebrow.

Representing himself at court, the accused said that he confronted his step-dad because the man was shouting at his sister and it angered him. He also said that family relations had improved since the incident, adding: “We’re alright now.”

Sheriff Hanlon warned the accused about such confrontations and the impact they could have on his younger sister.

He said: “How will she feel if her brother’s fighting with her mum’s partner? That’s going to have a disturbing effect on a 13-year-old girl. That’s not going to help her.”

Sheriff Hanlon fined the accuse £200, reduced from £300, to be paid on or before October 3.