A CLYDEBANK man failed to comply with the conditions of a community payback order because he had sunburn a court has heard.

Kevin Bartley, 23, who lives at Glasgow Road, had been ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work within six months and be supervised for 18 months as punishment for a drunken disturbance while he was on bail at Asda in Britannia Way on November 6 last year. He was on bail at the time of the incident when he shouted, swore and conducted himself in an aggressive manner.

The court order was imposed on December 3 at Dumbarton Sheriff Court as an alternative to custody.

Bartley was appearing back in court for a review of the order and to be sentenced for an earlier offence that took place on March 20 last year. On that date he was discovered to be allowing his then home address at Clyde Court in Clydebank to be used to produce the controlled drug cannabis.

Defence solicitor Scott Adair informed the court that Bartley had missed an appointment relating to his community payback order but had produced medical evidence that he was suffering from sunburn, but that his client understood the implications of not engaging properly with the conditions of the order.

Imposing further hours of unpaid work for the drug offence, Sheriff Maxwell Hendry said: "You have got what it takes to complete these orders but basically I have to push you to the edge of the precipice to get you to do them. The thing is are you minded to do them?"

Bartley was ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work in the community within six months. The sheriff told Bartley that it would have been 180 hours but for his early guilty plea.

The earlier order for the supermarket disturbance was allowed to continue.