A Clydebank man caught with fake cash hidden in his pants was jailed for four months last week.

Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard Joseph McGranaghan tried to use a counterfeit £10 to buy items at The Green Welly Shop in Tyndrum, Crianlarich.

The shop assistant checked the note under UV light and found it was fake.

Fiscal depute Eoin McGinty said the assistant thought McGranaghan "didn't seem bothered in the slightest" and simply asked for the fake money back.

The shop worker told McGranaghan she would keep it and contact the police and he left the shop and drove off, heading towards Glasgow.

The following day a separate incident led to him being arrested and then searched.

Mr McGinty said: "He had counterfeit notes. There were 35 £10 notes in his underwear, 15 had one serial number and 18 had another serial number. All were shown to be fake."

McGranaghan, of Dickens Avenue, Clydebank, appeared in court on Thursday.

He was previously sentenced to 240 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to trying to pass off fake cash but failed to complete the unpaid work as ordered.

His lawyer, Judith Reid, told the court McGranaghan had prioritised his own work over the unpaid work order.

She said during the order he was working up to seven days at his own job.

She urged Sheriff Simon Pender not to jail her client as he would lose his full-time job and to give him another chance to finish the unpaid work.

She said: "He has now realised the serious error of his ways. He has spoken to his current boss and he would allow him time off to complete the hours.

Regarding his original offence, which took place in August 2014, she said: "It seems to be a fairly poor attempt to be opportunistic when a friend provided him with the notes.

"He was caught fairly quickly."

Sheriff Pender told McGranaghan: "This was a community payback order with which you singly failed to comply. There were repeated failures to attend. There was nothing to prevent you dealing with this order competently."

He revoked the order and jailed McGranaghan for four months.