A football “casual” given a community payback order for fighting before a Hamilton v Dundee match has been jailed for six months for breaching the order.
Sheriff Davidson told Daniel Weir, 22, Lawson Avenue, Carnoustie, he could not understand why he had been given a community-based sentence in the first place as he believed the behaviour of all the people involved should have attracted a jail term.
Weir had been convicted at Hamilton Sheriff Court of a breach of the peace in a supermarket car park, engaging in a fight, shouting and swearing back in 2011.
He was sentenced to 250 hours’ unpaid work as part of a community payback order but the court was told he had breached that order after only completing 150 hours.
He had repeatedly failed to appear for appointments and swore at his supervisor.
Solicitor Pamela Dobson, for Weir, said he wanted to apologise to the officer for his conduct and he had acted in that manner due to his fatigue after working in Aberdeen since early that morning.
“He attended at his placement after returning from there and, due to his tiredness, he acted wrongly.
“He appreciates that and he has also taken steps to cut down his drinking and distanced himself from those he formerly associated with.”
Sheriff Davidson told Weir he found it difficult to understand the “odd way” for the Crown to have dealt with the original case in Hamilton Sheriff Court.
The acts of those involved would normally have attracted a custodial sentence but he did not know the full circumstances of the trial there.
His behaviour had brought shame on the city and of Dundee FC although the sheriff added: “I don’t know why, as you were nowhere near a football stadium.”
He revoked the payback order and sentenced him to six months in prison.