Street Valium popping offender left blood trail during Carronshore break-in

A chancer flying high on drink and drugs broke into a friend’s house to steal booze and then returned to brand witnesses ‘grasses’ for calling the police on him.
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Christopher Cowan (23) admitted to police he had been “bad”, but then returned to the same property to continue to make a nuisance of himself.

Cowan, 46 Muirdyke Avenue, Carronshore, appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday having pled guilty to breaking into the house in Alloa Road, Carron, with intent to steal, behaving in a threatening manner and struggling with police officers on June 12.

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Katie Cunningham, procurator fiscal depute, said: “It was 5.30pm and the witness received a phone call from the accused. She told him she was out of her house and didn’t think anything of it.

Cowan left a trail of blood over the house after he broke in to steal alcoholCowan left a trail of blood over the house after he broke in to steal alcohol
Cowan left a trail of blood over the house after he broke in to steal alcohol

“She later received a further call from the accused who stated he was now in her house. She sent two female friends to the house to check and they saw the living room window was smashed and there was blood on it.

“They saw the accused coming downstairs. There was a blood trail within the kitchen as if someone had been rummaging through it. They contacted the police who attended and the accused told them ‘I’ve been bad, I’m sorry’.”

Later that same day Cowan was back again.

“It was 7.20pm,” said the procurator fiscal depute. “The same witnesses were in the kitchen of the same house and they heard banging on the door.

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“They saw the accused, he was shouting ‘grass’ in relation to them contacting police earlier in the day. Police were contacted again and the accused was still present, shouting and swearing at the door of the house.

“They took hold of him and he began to struggle.”

The court heard the complainer in this case was a friend of the accused and Cowan had consumed alcohol and street Valium on the day in question. He went to the complainer’s address to consume more alcohol.

It was stated Cowan described himself as merely a “social drinker”.

Sheriff Derek Livingston ordered Cowan to pay the complainer £200 compensation at a rate of £40 a month. He was also placed on a supervised community payback order for two years and told to attend for alcohol and drug treatment.