Mixing medication and alcohol made offender strike out at glasses in Camelon bowling alley

Calum Wilkie, 40, threatened to kill the bar staff because they refused to sell him anymore alcohol and police had to be called when he started smashing glasses on the bar.

Wilkie appeared at Falkirk Sheriff Court last Thursday, having pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour and damaging property at Pro Bowl, Redbrae Road, Camelon, on September 30 and behaving in a threatening manner at an address in McCormack Place, Larbert on August 24.

Procurator fiscal depute Ann Orr said: “The accused was at a bowling alley consuming alcohol. He had asked for more alcohol and was refused service because of his intoxication.

"He said he was going to kill the bar staff members, banging on the bar. The accused continued to shout and swear that he was going to kill them and began picking up glasses from the bar and breaking them.

"The bar staff called the police at that point and when they arrived they saw the accused was extremely intoxicated and confrontational. He was arrested and then became abusive towards police officers, saying ‘when I get out of here your’e going to pay’ and telling them he never smashed anything.”

Earlier in the year Wilkie took his drunken aggression out on his former partner.

The procurator fiscal depute said: “The accused attended at his former partner’s home during the course of the afternoon. She had been sleeping and was awakened by the sound of banging on the door of her flat.

“She could hear the accused outside, banging the letterbox and started shouting she owed him an explanation or he would call her work. She didn’t respond. Police were contacted. She was frightened he would gain entry to her flat and frightened what he might do.

"He told police ‘I didn’t shout once. Absolute lies’.”

Simon Hutchison, defence solicitor, said: “There had been a break up – they had only been together for four months – and he started drinking too much. His doctor was changing his medication which he was on for an old injury.

"He was given stronger medication, which, when combined with alcohol, made him behave in the ridiculous way he did. He understands he has a difficulty with alcohol and has taken steps to deal with that."

Sheriff Craig Harris noted Wilkie had last served a custodial sentence in 2010.

He said: “You have not been to prison in 12 years and this is probably as close as you could get to going back to prison. This is abuse to females, vandalism and abuse to the police.”

He placed Wilkie, 14 Holyrood Place, Stenhousemuir, on a supervised community payback order for two years with the condition he complete 140 hours of unpaid work in that time.

Wilkie was also made subject to a non-harassment order to have no contact with his former partner or enter McCormack Place for the next two years.