A MAN who behaved in a threatening or abusive manner at a house in Whitecrook has been warned he’ll go to prison if his behaviour is not “exemplary” over the next two months.

David Steen, 32, shouted and swore at the property in Boyle Street on December 20 last year.

Steen’s offending continued at the common close outside a house in Dumbarton in the early hours of New Year’s Day, when he again shouted, swore and behaved in a threatening or abusive fashion.

And he added a charge of perverting the course of justice to his rap sheet when police were called to deal with the incident and he told them his name was William Crawford.

Steen, of Fisher Place, Helensburgh, appeared at Dumbarton Sheriff Court for sentencing on Friday, when his solicitor, Waqqas Ashraf, said the Dumbarton and Clydebank matters had been deferred to await the outcome of a separate case in Paisley for which a background report from social workers had been sought.

Mr Ashraf said Steen had been given a community payback order and hours of unpaid work as a punishment in the Paisley case on August 14.

He said: “He had a number of alcohol difficulties and has taken steps voluntarily to address those.

“A lot of his previous offending has been influenced because he’s been intoxicated, but he has made attempts to get himself on the straight and narrow.”

Mr Ashraf said: “He knows, should he be in any further trouble, that all options are then open to the court – and one of those could be a very lengthy custodial sentence because of his record.”

Sheriff Simon Pender deferred sentence on Steen until October 27 to await the results of a review of his Paisley CPO.

But warned: “If it’s not an exemplary review, a custodial sentence on each of these matters is what you can expect.”