A DRUMRY man convicted of sex offences against two teenage girls lied to police after attacking a man at the Asda supermarket in Clydebank.

John Gray groped one 15-year-old girl and directed sexual comments towards another in May 2016.

And the 39-year-old was back in court last week over separate charges relating to an incident in January of this year.

Gray was due to be sentenced on Friday after he pleaded guilty on April 19 to attempting to punch his victim on the head at the Asda store in Britannia Way on January 5.

Later that same day, at Clydebank police office, Gray falsely gave two constables another name instead of his own.

Court papers revealed that Gray, now living at Peel View in Drumry, was on bail when he committed the January offences, having been granted bail at Dumbarton Sheriff Court in May 2017.

Gray’s plea of not guilty to a further charge relating to the Asda incident in January, alleging that he shouted, swore, uttered sexualised remarks, acted aggressively and refused to desist when asked, was accepted by the Crown.

Gray was convicted at a trial in February last year of uttering sexual comments towards one 15-year-old girl in Dalmuir Square, and of touching the other girl on the breast, spitting on her, struggling with police, shouting, swearing and acting aggressively in Dunswin Avenue on May 29, 2016.

And on the day of that trial, Gray made matters even worse for himself by speaking to the victim of his assault within the court complex where the case was being heard.

He was spared jail for the 2016 offences, and was instead placed on a community payback order (CPO) as an alternative to prison.

But Gray will have to come back to court next week for sentencing on the two charges dating from January this year after Sheriff Simon Pender identified “contradictions” in two social work reports – one sought after the plea in April, the other describing his progress on the CPO imposed 12 months ago.

Defence solicitor Douglas Thomson told Sheriff Pender on Friday: “You will be familiar with the older of the matters, having heard the trial on February 28 last year.

“There are some concerning comments in the current report. I have advised Mr Gray that neither verdicts nor sentences are matters for debate.

“He either complies wholeheartedly with the punishment, or he doesn’t and takes the consequences of that.”

Gray was ordered to come back to court on May 11, by which time a new social work report is expected to be available.

His bail was continued.