A Dunblane man was this week jailed for a total of six months on a string of offences which included assaults on shop and medical staff.
Thomas Allan, of Anderson Street, had admitted assaulting a man in Stirling’s Europa Music in Friars Street on July 17, 2019, as well as an employee of Dunblane Health Centre on November 4.
The 42-year-old further admitted causing a disturbance at Stirling Sheriff Court on May 28 that year.
Allan also pleaded guilty to a further charge, on a separate complaint, of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at a Dunblane’s Bannerman’s Pharmacy on January 28, 2020, by shouting, swearing, removing various glasses from a display cabinet, throwing some on the floor, and lunging at a member of staff – and breaching a bail condition forbidding him from entering the shop.
He also admitted breaching a bail condition, in a third complaint, by consuming alcohol at Dundee Railway Station on January 29, 2020, while on bail on two separate matters.
And a breach of a community payback order was also admitted which had been imposed on charges of assaulting a Forth Valley Royal Hospital worker on March 14, 2020, while on bail on two separate matters, and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner there.
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His agent Virgil Crawford told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday this week that Allan, who had been heavily intoxicated, had a problem with alcohol at the time of all the offences.
While he had a criminal record, the lawyer added, Allan’s last offences had taken place in 2016 and before that there had been a “significant gap” going back to 2011.
There was nothing else outstanding, he added.
Sheriff James MacDonald told Allan: “This is a worrying catalogue of offending on your part.
“There are a number of common themes which cause the court concern.
“I have no doubt all of these offences have been fuelled by the consumption of alcohol.”
Another aspect, Sheriff MacDonald said, was the involvement of people going about their duties at their place of work.
These were aggravating factors and a pattern of behaviour that required punishment.
Given Allan’s criminal record, which contained similar offences, there was no other sentence appropriate but imprisonment.
Sheriff MacDonald sentenced Allan to 24 weeks’ imprisonment on all the complaints backdated to January 14 this year.
