A joiner attacked the ex-lover of his associate outdoors a Scots police station and left him with a dislocated shoulder.
Konrad Bak jumped on the again of his sufferer after bumping into him as they walked down an Edinburgh road.
The 28-year-old was ordered to pay £900 in compensation to badly injured Sebastian Dlubisz.
However prosecutors accepted that dad-of-three Bak launched the assault after provocation.
Bak appeared on the metropolis’s sheriff court docket on Tuesday and pled responsible to assaulting Sebastian to his extreme damage.
Fiscal depute Janet MacDonald stated Sebastian had been strolling with friends beside Drylaw police station when Bak handed them in the other way.
Ms MacDonald stated there had been “earlier points between them” and a “scuffle broke out”.
The court docket heard Sebastian restrained Bak on the bottom briefly, telling him “keep in your f***ing a**” and “the copper station is correct there”.
Ms MacDonald stated Sebastian launched the accused and walked off.
She added: “He heard operating footsteps and felt the drive of somebody leaping onto him. He fell on his left shoulder.”
The court docket was instructed Sebastian later attended Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and underwent surgical procedure for a dislocated and fractured shoulder.
Bak was arrested by cops and instructed them: “I solely defended myself. He attacked me.”
Defence agent Murray Robertson stated Sebastian had beforehand been in a relationship with Bak’s associate and “normally they simply keep away from one another”.
Mr Robertson stated he understood Sebastian was anticipated to make a “full restoration” from his accidents following the incident on November 21 2020.
He added first offender Bak had been a self-employed joiner since transferring to Scotland from Poland.
Sheriff John Cook dinner stated the Crown had accepted there was an “aspect of provocation”.
He ordered Bak, of the town’s Muirhouse space, to pay a £900 compensation order.