AN Old Kilpatrick man who flouted a court order by going to see his ex-partner when he was banned from doing so has been jailed after a sheriff said he had “reached the end of the line”.

David Gordon was seen with the woman on July 17.

The terms of the 51-year-old’s bail order also prohibited him from entering Dumbarton, where the woman lives, for any purpose other than a court appearance, compliance with a previous community payback order (CPO) or meeting his solicitor.

Gordon appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on Friday to be sentenced for the bail breach – and also for behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and acting aggressively towards the woman in Meadowbank Street on the same day.

Emma Thomson, prosecuting, said Gordon, of Thistleneuk, had arranged to meet the woman at Dumbarton Central railway station, and that after they spoke he had followed her out on to the street despite her asking him not to do so.

Ms Thomson said: “She took up a defensive position, standing like a boxer. The accused said ‘hit me’, but she did not.

“The complainer then decided to go back to him.

“They sat on a train together.

“She then got off the train and was followed by the accused.”

The pair then went to the woman’s flat, but there was an argument outside which was witnessed by a neighbour and which led to the police being called and Gordon being arrested.

Ms Thomson said Gordon, who had been granted bail at court on January 25 and April 6, had not been formally cautioned and charged “due to his drunken and erratic behaviour”.

Brian McGuire, defending, said his client’s position was that the woman had asked Gordon to go to her flat to help her redecorate.

Mr McGuire also told the court he had expressed concern to Gordon about the couple’s relationship – which turned “toxic” when alcohol was involved.

Mr McGuire told Sheriff Maxwell Hendry that Gordon had completed hours of unpaid work imposed as part of his previous CPO – itself imposed for spitting in the face of the same woman at a pub on Glasgow Road in Dumbarton on January 24 this year – and had also completed a rehabilitation course.

Mr McGuire added: “I’ve explained to him that this most recent matter might just be the thing that tips your Lordship to the view that this can’t go on.”

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry told Gordon: “I’ve given this matter considerable thought, and as Mr McGuire, and you, anticipate, this can’t continue.

“You have been told, and shown, that someone who sets out to break a court order, while on bail and required to be of good behaviour, has reached the end of the line.”

Gordon was jailed for four months, backdated to July 19, the date on which he pleaded guilty to the offences.