A MAN appeared in court last week over an alleged attack over a phone charger near Dumbarton Central station.

Around 11.30pm on November 11, three men aged 31, 29 and 28 were walking towards Risk Street from the rail station when they passed another man they didn't know.

The man asked for a phone charger, which the group didn't have, and he then reportedly became abusive to them and produced a knife.

He allegedly struck the 29-year-old man to the right ear and the group went to the High Street where they called police.