A joiner attacked the ex-lover of his partner outside an Edinburgh police station and left him with a dislocated shoulder.
Konrad Bak jumped on the back of his victim after bumping into him as they walked down a street in the capital report the Record.
The 28-year-old was ordered to pay £900 in compensation to badly injured Sebastian Dlubisz.
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But prosecutors accepted that dad-of-three Bak launched the attack after provocation.
Bak appeared at the city’s sheriff court on Tuesday and pled guilty to assaulting Sebastian to his severe injury.
Fiscal depute Janet MacDonald said Sebastian had been walking with pals beside Drylaw police station when Bak passed them in the opposite direction.
Ms MacDonald said there had been “previous issues between them” and a “scuffle broke out”.
The court heard Sebastian restrained Bak on the ground briefly, telling him “stay on your f***ing a**” and “the copper station is right there”.
Ms MacDonald said Sebastian released the accused and walked off.
She added: “He heard running footsteps and felt the force of someone jumping onto him. He fell on his left shoulder.”
The court was told Sebastian later attended Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and underwent surgery for a dislocated and fractured shoulder.
Bak was arrested by cops and told them: “I only defended myself. He attacked me.”
Defence agent Murray Robertson said Sebastian had previously been in a relationship with Bak’s partner and “usually they just avoid each other”.
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Mr Robertson said he understood Sebastian was expected to make a “full recovery” from his injuries following the incident on November 21 2020.
He added first offender Bak had been a self-employed joiner since moving to Scotland from Poland.
Sheriff John Cook said the Crown had accepted there was an “element of provocation”.
He ordered Bak, of the city’s Muirhouse area, to pay a £900 compensation order.
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