A BARRHEAD football coach attacked his estranged wife’s partner with a brick after being told their children were calling her new man “dad”.

Daniel Williamson, of Sunnyside Place, “lost all control” as he hit his victim with the brick and repeatedly punched him on the head, to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement.

Dumbarton Sheriff Court previously heard that Williamson and his wife had been separated for two years and he had never previously met her new partner.

The estranged wife had taken their three children away on a family break and returned on October 19 because Williamson had arranged to take them to a football match that evening.

Fiscal depute Sarah Healing said: “She took the children to a public house, where they met the accused. The accused was standing outside and the children ran up to meet him.

“There was a conversation between the boys and the accused relating to the victim’s presence in the house.”

At that point, 37-year-old Williamson headed in the direction of the house and his estranged wife followed.

The court was told how, when the victim opened the door to the common close, Williamson threw a brick at him but missed.

Ms Healing said: “The accused shouted ‘Come out you fat p****’, before running at him and hitting him with another brick he was holding in his hand.”

Williamson’s estranged wife attempted to intervene but he managed to pick up a brick and struck his victim on the back of the head.

He then left the scene but, when he was later detained by police, he told officers: “I hold my hands up. I whacked him with a brick.”

When first offender Williamson returned to court last week for sentencing, his solicitor said the incident was “very much out of character”.

He added: “He was under the impression a reconciliation was on the cards but his wife met a new partner and things appeared to be said about the children which seemed to anger him...about children being asked to call the new gentleman ‘dad’ and that they were going to move away together.

“All that was relayed to him and it angered him and he attended the house where the children lived and he lost his temper.”

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry interrupted and said Williamson “lost all control of himself and used considerable violence towards a man”.

The defence solicitor admitted: “It’s a matter he very much regrets. It’s a matter he is very remorseful for. He spends most of his time working or with his children.

“He is involved in the community and in coaching a children’s football team. He has undertaken charity work. He appears to be a man who has positively contributed to society and plans to continue in the future.

“He is deemed to be at low risk for reoffending.”

Sheriff Hendry told Williamson the information he was told that day might have been “shocking” but the actions he took were unacceptable.

He added: “If you use violence towards any person in the future, custody will be a consequence.”

Williamson was placed under supervision by social workers for one year and told to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work in the community within nine months.

He was also ordered to pay his victim £1,000 in compensation.