A FAIFLEY man has been hit in the pocket after his drunken attempts to remonstrate with his niece’s neighbour in Clydebank ended with him having a go at police.

Mark McSorley, of Auchnacraig Road, committed the offence at a property in Radnor Street on April 9.

The 45-year-old appeared in

court for sentencing on Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of repeatedly kicking a door, acting in an aggressive manner and threatening violence.

Fiscal depute Sarah Healing told Dumbarton Sheriff Court police had gone to a report

of a disturbance at the property at around 3.15pm.

She said: “On entering the common close they heard a male voice from an upper level of the property and saw the accused repeatedly kicking a door and shouting and swearing.

“When asked why he was behaving in the manner he was, the accused shouted ‘f*** off before I stick the nut on you. Youse are all jumped up. Go f*** yourselves’.

“Eventually officers had no option but to place him under arrest.”

McSorley’s solicitor, Scott Adair, told the court: “When police arrived he was at the door of a person who had caused difficulties with his niece.

“Alcohol having been taken, he reacted entirely wrongly, both initially and when police asked him to move away.”

Mr Adair said the incident had happened during a period of relapse by his client into alcohol misuse. He asked Sheriff Simon Pender to consider a community payback order.

Asking Sheriff Simon Pender to consider an alternative to prison, Mr Adair said: “He knows full well what will happen to him if he fails to comply with a community payback order.”

But instead of imposing a sentence of unpaid work, Sheriff Pender fined McSorley £600.

The sheriff said: “You are coming perilously close to back into custody.”