Drunken blood covered Grangemouth offender lashed out at person who was just trying to help
An offender who was worse the wear for alcohol then fell over and injured his face.
Scott Smith, 53, was offered assistance by a person and proceeded to threaten him for his trouble.
Smith appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday having pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour towards a two males at an address in the Grangemouth area on November 22.
At a previous court appearance, the procurator fiscal depute said: “The accused had been consuming alcohol and had left the address. He had fallen over, causing an injury to his face.
"At 6.45pm the complainer notice the accused outside the house, with a bleeding face. He was asked to come back into the address so he could tend to his injuries. The accused has then made threats towards him saying ‘If you come near me I’ll batter you’.
"They have then engaged in a struggle with the accused shouting ‘what are you going to do?’. He made more threats, saying ‘I’ll smash you, I’ll batter you’.”
When police attended at the address, Smith told them: “I’ve done nothing. Rubbish.”
Earlier in the year defence solicitor Martin Morrow said: “It’s a sad situation. He is 52 years of age and his long term relationship had come to an end prior to this incident. The underlying difficulty he has is alcohol.
"In the run up to this incident his alcohol dependency had got worse.”
Following a medical matter, Smith has no given up alcohol completely and lost his job.
"It’s a very sad state of affairs,” said Sheriff Maryam Labaki at the time. “But it’s a good report.”
She placed Smith on a structure deferred sentence for six months.
At last Thursday’s court it was stated Smith, who had been having some health issues with his stomach, had been trying to deal with his alcohol problems and had been attending Andy’s Man Club.
Sheriff Craig Harris said: “Your behaviour has cost you an awful lot already – it’s cost you your relationship with your partner. A structured deferred sentence was put in place in May.
"You seem to genuine in your efforts to rebuild things and deal with the issues you have.”
He placed Smith, 20d Paris Street, Grangemouth, om supervised community payback order for six months.