A MAN has been fined after attacking a nurse at an Irvine hospital.

David Murray Mitchell Law admitted to assaulting a male nurse, spitting on him and scratching him on the face and body to his injury at Woodland View on June 13 last year.

The 48-year-old also admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, likely to cause fear and alarm after shouting and swearing at staff in the Kilwinning Road hospital.

He was fined £100 and given a community payback order at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week.