Jail term for catalogue of offences

A Dunfermline man has been jailed for 40 weeks after committing a string of offences.

Michael Ross, also known as Collins, had previously been given a community payback sentence but it was breached.

Ross, 32, of Blackburn Avenue, returned to Dunfermline Sheriff Court to be sentenced for that and other offences, including behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and threatening violence while brandishing a glass bottle in Headwell Avenue, Dunfermline, on September 12 2016.

He also admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive way by entering a house in Wellwood’s Burt Street uninvited on July 8 2017.

Ross was in possession of an offensive weapon – a snooker cue – on the same day at Canmore Golf Club.

He punched and kicked a vehicle on November 21 at Victoria Terrace, Dunfermline, and also broke a wing mirror by kicking it.

On the same date, at Pilmuir Street, he threw a wheelie-bin on to a main road into the path of oncoming vehicles, causing them to swerve and drive on the opposite carriageway.

Later, at Dunfermline police station, he shouted, swore, made offensive remarks, threatened police officers and spat repeatedly.

Sheriff Simon Collins said the “sheer volume of cases and the failure of the CPO” meant there was no alternative to a custodial sentence.