A TEENAGE tearaway who is still paying compensation to the man he assaulted two years ago has now been banned from the roads for 14 months for being four times the legal drink limit.

Connor McGinty, of Allan Crescent, Alexandria, pleaded guilty in May to having 85mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath, well in excess of the 22mg limit on April 23.

CCTV found the 19-year-old in a vehicle in the Vale of Leven Industrial Estate, near Stirling Road, Dumbarton, before 10pm.

There were three other people in the vehicle, which was stationary, but McGinty was in the driver’s seat, with Buckfast underneath.

He told police: “I was sitting in the seat, but I wasn’t driving.”

Defence solicitor Kenny Clark said McGinty accepted he could have driven, had police not come along.

He added: “He passed a driving test last September and was doing driver training for his employer, which would now be impossible. His employer has indicated he is willing to keep him on. He knows, as he put it, he ‘screwed up’ and he was being a ‘pure idiot’.”

Last year McGinty admitted an April 2015 assault that left his victim needing a metal plate inserted in his face. He was sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work and £750 in compensation.

Sentence was deferred last summer for good behaviour for kicking a police officer on the head on December 6, 2015.

Sheriff Simon Pender told McGinty last week his CPO would continue unaffected and he was fined £450 and disqualified for 14 months.