A YOUNG man has been warned he's "at the door of custody" after he failed to comply with his court order multiple times.

Stephen Thomas admitted to breaking two court orders to see his partner and family last year.

The 21-year-old was given standard bail conditions from Dumbarton Sheriff Court on September 2, 2022, to not contact or approach his partner and not enter her home in Bonhill.

However, he broke that condition less than three weeks later on September 19 when he was found in her home.

A new bail order was imposed the next day, with the same requirements, but he was also banned from a property on Gray Street in Alexandria.

He broke this order on November 14.

During the incident, Thomas behaved in a threatening and abusive manner by uttering threats on the phone to his mother.

He then attended a property on Gray Street where he repeatedly kicked and damaged a door, smash and damage windows and place his partner and mum in a state of fear and alarm.

We previously told in April last year that Thomas and his dad took on a teenage girl and her father in the middle of the street in a dispute over a ring.

Thomas had been given a community payback order (CPO) with social work supervision and unpaid work following the incident. 

His solicitor told the court on June 27 that Thomas showed "considerable maturity" after he informed the lawyer of his move from his former address in Helensburgh to Alexandria due to family circumstances.

Despite this, there was a lack of priority given to his CPO.

Thomas's lawyer said: "There is a level of immaturity and lack of proper prioritisation. The fact that he is no longer in employment there is no longer conflict. It has been made absolutely crystal clear to him that the order has to take priority over that.

"I have had a very frank discussion with him that he is at the door of custody. My submission is to deal with this matter in a non-custodial punishment."

Sheriff Gallacher said: "The difficulty is that if I tell someone they need to sort it and they don't sort it then the consequences should follow. Otherwise, they won't believe what I say."

The case was deferred until next month for an update on his CPO.

Addressing Thomas the sheriff added: "I recognise you and I remember speaking to you. I recognise the consequences. You are this close to finding yourself spending the summer in custody."