A Scots man was left unconscious on the street after being battered by two thugs he confronted for tipping over a wheelie bin.
Paul Wither, from Leslie in Fife, was strolling alongside the Excessive Avenue, when he encountered two thugs emptying the bin's contents exterior a neighborhood restaurant round 8.55pm on Saturday March 26.
Nevertheless, when the 56-year-old stopped to talk to them and ask the pair what they have been doing, the sick thugs attacked him and began punching him within the face.
The cowardly duo then walked away with Paul knocked out on Leslie Excessive Avenue.
Talking to the Day by day Report, he defined "I finished to offer them a row after which the pair of them simply went proper for me and rained down the blows.
"I did not get a superb have a look at them however they have been of their late 20s or early 30s by the appears of it.
"I simply went to talk to them concerning the bins and subsequent factor I do know I used to be waking up with cops and a few native folks trying over me."
Paul was rushed to hospital and fortunately launched quickly after, however says he's fortunate as issues might have ended up worse.
The Fife man instructed the Report how he hit his head off the pavement and blacked out after being smacked, leaving a big swelling on the base of his cranium.
Paul additionally suffers from a coronary heart illness however fortunately he's now on the street to a full restoration and is most involved about dropping his glasses within the assault.
He continued: "I had fallen to the bottom and was knocked out when my head hit the pavement.
"I went to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy afterwards and had extreme bruising on my jaw and a large bump on the again of my head.
"My glasses have been additionally destroyed within the assault and I can not afford new ones so I simply have to undergo."
To this point the police investigation has not led to any arrests and Paul is making an attraction for witnesses who might have seen the assault, or caught it on CCTV, to return ahead.
Particularly he asks that the drivers of a white Ford Focus or Fiesta get in contact with police.
A Police Scotland spokesperson stated: “Round 8.55pm on Saturday, 26 March, police have been known as to a report of a 56-year-old man assaulted in Excessive Avenue, Leslie.
"Enquiries are ongoing."
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