A man who smashed a pool cue over a stranger’s head in a pub, has been jailed.

Campbell Gray hit the victim with the cue, snapping it then continued his attack, as well as assaulting a woman.

He apparently became jealous when he saw his partner talking to the couple and so attacked them.

The man was speaking amicably to Gray in the bar just before the vicious onslaught.

The woman tried to intervene but Gray assaulted her pushing her against a bar stool and on to the floor.

Gray, 35, of Blair Street, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

He admitted that on September 27, at The Kings, Main Street, Kelty, he assaulted a man, by seizing him by the body and pulling him to the floor.

He then pursued him, struck him on the head with a pool cue and repeatedly struck him on the head and body to his severe injury.

He was also unlawfully in possession of an offensive weapon.

Further, he assaulted a female, struggled with her, pushed her on the body causing her to strike her head on a piece of furniture.

The full incident was captured on the pub’s CCTV.

The victim suffered a large gash across his scalp, which required ten stitches.

Defence solicitor Brian Black said, “He’d taken a large quantity of alcohol but knows that is no excuse.”

Sheriff Krista Johnstone, jailing Gray for six months, told him: “This was a violent and sustained attack on a man you didn’t know.

“You hit him so hard the pool cue broke but you didn’t stop there, you continued to attack him.