A MAN has been jailed for 16 months for possessing a knife and for his part in a shocking hammer attack in Tranent.

Lewis Sives, of Westbank Terrace, Macmerry, was part of a group who assaulted Marc Hughes with the implement on Kings Road on May 6 last year.

The 34-year-old was sentenced at Edinburgh Sheriff Court last week after previously admitting the charge of assault.

Sives, along with co-accused William Peacock, 35, and 34-year-old Andrew Yorkston, assaulted Mr Hughes by repeatedly punching him on the head and body and striking him with the hammer.

Sheriff Kenneth Campbell KC issued Sives with an 11-month custodial sentence.

He was also given a five-month jail term, to run consecutively, for a separate offence of possessing a knife on Ormiston Road, Tranent, on April 11 last year.

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Peacock, of Caesar Way, Tranent, was previously jailed for 11 months and Yorkston, of Prestonpans, was previously given a 12-month sentence for their part in the hammer attack.