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A LAZY thug has appeared in court after failing to complete two community service sentences.

Lee Anderson told Dunfermline Sheriff Court he couldn't do the unpaid work as it made his back and shoulders ache.

He had been handed the community service orders after being convicted of two assaults – one of which involved him brandishing a knife.

Anderson's lawyer Elaine Buist told the court: "He is willing and able to carry out unpaid work as long as it is light duties."

But after hearing Anderson, of Cowdenbeath, had fathered 14 kids, Sheriff Craig McSherry revoked the community service orders and jailed him for four months.

He said: "You have completely failed to comply.

"He's 26 and he claims to have fathered 14 children - I don't suppose he pays anything to them."