Stole booze and kicked door

Sentence on a woman who repeatedly kicked and damaged a door at a Stirling city centre store has been deferred for three months.

Andrena McLean, whose address was given as Alloa homeless accommodation, had admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at Spar in Murray Place on March 31 last year.

She had also pleaded guilty to stealing booze from the Co-op in Clackmannan Main Street on June 10, 2020, and stealing toiletries and jewellery from Superdrug in the Thistle Centre on November 11, 2021.

Appearing for sentence on these charges at Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday, her agent Virgil Crawford told Sheriff Keith O’Mahony that a report prepared for the court had been “fairly positive”.

The 36-year-old had experienced troubles throughout her life.

She had recently given birth and her child was now in the care system, the lawyer added.

McLean was engaging well with a Community Payback Order and “significant problems” in the past had been addressed to“a very large extent.”

He asked Sheriff Keith O’Mahony to defer sentence for three months at the end of which he would still have the option“to deal with her as appropriate”.

Sheriff O’Mahony told McLean:“By all accounts you appear to be engaging fairly well with the Community Payback Order you are currently on. In respect of all matters here today all options are available, including imprisonment.

“I want you to get the opportunity to engage with the Community Payback Order.”

He deferred sentence until June 29 for a supplementary criminal justice social work report and good behaviour report and ordered her to appear on that date.