An 82-year-old man was attacked by his neighbour in a row over a parking space outside his Glasgow home.
Frederick McKibben suffered a head injury and rushed to Glasgow Royal Infirmary when he was assaulted as he confronted Daniel O'Donnell in Townhead.
Wife Christina, 79, says she thought the pensioner was dead when she saw him unconscious with a bad gash on his head, the Daily Record reports.
Now she's condemned the "disgusting" fine handed to her husband's 66-year-old attacker.
Christina says the couple had been experiencing parking issues outside their home due to broken bollards and had blocked their space off with a rope. However, she says neighbour O'Donnell seized the rope, cut it up and posted it through Frederick's letterbox.
She said: "I was lying in bed when I heard the letter box going so I got up and found the rope lying all cut up into small pieces and it had been posted through the door.
"I opened the door and O'Donnell was standing halfway up the second flight of stairs laughing. I told him he was off his head and went and closed the door.
"My husband was getting ready to go out with the dog before bedtime and he asked me what had happened, so I told him.
"He said he was going to speak to O'Donnell, but I told him just to leave it.
"But my husband then started walking up the stairs to go speak to him but then he pushed my husband who fell down and banged his head.
"He was unconscious. When I saw him lying there I actually thought he was dead because he wasn't coming round. O'Donnell then ran up the stairs and called the police himself.
"The police later said they had a recording of the call where he said he thought he'd killed my husband, so they said he couldn't get away with it.
"The landing was covered in blood. The forensics came out and were taking photographs of it all.
"He pleaded guilty to pushing him down the stairs and knocking him unconscious, but he's walked away with a fine and that's it. I'm disgusted."
O'Donnell appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Thursday where he admitted pushing the pensioner and causing him to hit his head off the ground and was handed a £520 fine.
Federick discharged himself from hospital the day after the attack, but Christina says he has never fully recovered from the traumatic incident.
Christina added: "His whole personality changed after all that. He started to get quieter and quieter.
"He used to crack silly jokes all the time but he stopped all that, and he began staying in and stopped going out with the dog.
The McKibbin's were dealt a further blow in January this year when Frederick was diagnosed with cancer.
Christina went on: "The cancer is in his prostate and he also has two tumours in his lung. The judge said that he couldn't relate the attack to being the cause of the that, but the whole family feels that justice hasn't been done.
"That man should've been sent away for what he did."
