A DRUNKEN couple who carried out an unprovoked assault on a man walking to work have been spared jail.
Addicts Melanie MacDonnell and Scott Box punched and kicked Raymond Scudamore as he walked along Water Lane in Brislington, after Box tried to stop him from walking past the spot where his "missus" was urinating in a bush.
Bristol Crown Court heard that when a passerby intervened Box screamed abuse and said: "I'll stab you, I'll cut your head off."
MacDonnell and Box, both 37 and of Chapel Court, Kenneth Road, Brislington, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm in relation to the incident in August last year.
Judge Carol Hagen yesterday gave each an eight-month suspended jail sentence, telling MacDonnell to undergo a year's "female specified activity requirement" and Box to do 150 hours of unpaid work.
She also told the unemployed pair to each pay compensation of £100.
Nigel Fryer, prosecuting, said Mr Scudamore was walking to work at the nearby Tesco store when he was punched to the ground and kicked repeatedly. After the passerby intervened the pair fled the scene.
Mr Scudamore went to Bristol Royal Infirmary, having suffered facial injuries and broken glasses.
Ian Kelcey, defending, said the couple were both sorry and had had too much to drink.
Mr Kelcey said the two had learned a salutary lesson as they had been banned from Tesco as a result of the attack, and now had to walk an hour to a pharmacy to pick up their methadone prescriptions.
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