A MAN who damaged solar power lights beyond repair during a spate of crimes has been jailed.

Martin Wilson appeared in the dock at Dumbarton Sheriff Court last week for a number of crimes he committed from 2020 until 2021.

For all four offences, he was previously placed on a community payback order which was revoked by Sheriff Maxwell Hendry at the recent hearing.

His lawyer Stephen Maguire said: "There is a gap in offending and has been no offending since 2021. There have been difficulties in respect of personal [life] and relationships.

"He knows that custody is inevitable. I don't think I would be doing my job right if I didn't get your lordship to consider the option of a restriction of liberty order.

"I would ask that to moderate any sentences imposed. He knows it could have had more serious consequences. Of course, none of this helps him, but there has been no further offending."

Wilson previously admitted to being in the garden of a property on East Barnes Street in Clydebank on New Year's Day in 2021 and recklessly destroyed a number of solar power lights beyond repair.

When he was taken to Clydebank police station he was found with a lockback knife.

The 36-year-old was put on a curfew to remain at his home address from 7pm-7am every night and broke it on March 19, 2021.

On December 9, 2020, he was found at a property on Strathleven Drive in Alexandria without lawful authority and it was believed he was intending to commit a theft.

Whilst at the building, Wilson behaved in a threatening and abusive manner as he attended the front with holding a brick. He refused to leave when repeatedly requested. 

The repeat offender also behaved in the same manner when he attended a property uninvited on Brown Street in the town a few months earlier on August 3. 

During the incident, he requested money from someone in the home and attempted to enter the property. He failed to desist his behaviour.

Sheriff Maxwell Hendry said: "The court has bent over backwards for you and given you every conceivable opportunity to comply with community-based disposals.

"The report I have in front of me confirms that realistically there is nothing prospect that you can be expected to deal with court orders other than imprisonment."

The sheriff jailed him for 10 months.