A thug has been jailed for threatening to kill police officers after getting into a row over wearing a face mask.
Craig Scoular began arguing with a security guard when he tried to enter a shop without wearing a face covering.
He was drinking from an open bottle of alcohol at the time, held it by the neck and threatened to smash the bottle over the security guard's head.
Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard he then warned: "I'm going to cut you from a******* to earhole.
"I'm going to wait for you."
The police were contacted and officers tracked Scoular, 41, down to Kilmarnock bus station.
When they approached him, he told them, "I'm going to burn your house down" and said he was "f****** nuts".
Scoular admitted his guilt over the offences when he appeared in the dock this week.
He pleaded guilty to charges of behaving in a threatening or abusive way and using the bottle as an offensive weapon.
Defence solicitor Gillian Swanney said: "He was heavily under the influence of alcohol.
"He has no recollection of it.
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"He knows they were just trying to do their job."
Sheriff George Jamieson jailed Scoular, of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, for 12 months, reduced from 15 due to his guilty plea.
He backdated the sentence to December, when Scoular was first remanded in custody, and said he was "not entirely confident" he could turn his life around.
In 2019, Scoular and pal David McDowall were jailed for six months each after brazenly snorting cocaine in the town's McDonald's restaurant while families ate.
At the time, defence solicitor John McCluskey said both men were "completely embarrassed” after the incident was covered in the media.
He said they had “little recollection” of the incident and had been released from a prison just a week earlier.
Sentencing them, Sheriff Michael Hanlon said: “This was a blatant, very public offence that took place within a family restaurant where children and children of a pre-school age could see this going on.”
