A CLYDEBANK teenager has been placed under social workers’ supervision for a series of bail breaches.

Lewis Graham, 19, committed the offences at Rosshead House in Alexandria on September 11 and 12, 2015 and at Gray Street in the town on February 4 last year.

In each of the Alexandria incidents Graham breached a condition of bail which required him to stay within his bail address between 7pm and 7am each day.

The Gray Street incident was of a similar nature, although that time Graham was found outside the property during curfew hours from 11pm until 7am. Graham’s solicitor, Jonathan Paul, told Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Thursday his client had not been in trouble again since the offences were committed.

Graham, of Vanguard Street, last appeared in court at the end of December, when he was nearing the end of a custodial sentence on a separate matter – and when he was given six weeks after his release to stay out of trouble.

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry told Graham: “You are 19, and you have made a lot of poor decisions in your life so far. Being at a crossroads means you have a choice, and I think you know what the two roads are and what they lead to.”

“If you want to live a useful and sociable life the court will support you in that. But the coin has two sides. If you go back to drinking, and if you go back to offending – and the two are inextricably linked – the court will have to do what it has done in the past.”

In addition to 12 months’ supervision by social workers, Graham was also told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work on each charge within nine months as part of a community payback order.

Sheriff Hendry added: “That’s a high figure because of your record and the nature of the offences back in September 2015, but it is also high because I think there is a reasonable prospect that the work might be good for you.”

“But I want to see whether you are going to make an effort to comply and make an effort to avoid further offending.”

A review of the order will take place on April 19.