A chef attacked an 80-year-old dementia sufferer as he walked his dog in a Fife park.
Ferdinando Alimento, who a court heard is a chef for Rangers Football Club, then turned on the octogenarian’s partner when she came looking for him.
The 50-year-old went on to attack a police officer who came to the couple’s aid.
Alimento, who appeared by video link from prison, placed a forearm into the woman’s neck and pushed her so hard she fell over a wall.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court a sheriff told him he had been given “chance after chance after chance” and jailed him for the attacks.
Harm caused was deliberate or reckless
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith told him: “You have avoided a custodial sentence because the sheriffs you have appeared before have given you a chance.
“You do have a problem with alcohol and thus far have not been successful in combatting that.
“You are 50 and you must have intended to cause harm to your victims, or were reckless with regard to that.
“The victim in charge one was an octogenarian who suffers dementia – the media would rightly call him a victim.
“He was walking his dog before turning into bed when you attacked him without reason.
“The only reason you can provide is that you were drunk.”
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On the second assault, Sheriff Niven-Smith went on: “That victim was assaulted because her partner had not returned from his walk and saw you nearby.”
The police officer, Sheriff Niven-Smith said, was “doing his duty to save them from your attack.”
He ordered Alimento, of Waddell Court, Glasgow, to spend 328 days behind bars.
Alimento pled guilty to three charges of assault in John Dixon Park in Markinch on May 25 this year.
Solicitor David Bell, defending, said his client is well regarded in his job at Rangers, which had been kept open for him despite being remanded for several weeks.
Alimento has previous convictions for assault, as well as possession of a machete in a public place.
