A football thug who tried to start a fight with police following “serious disorder” between Dundee United and Aberdeen fans dodged jail and a stadium ban.
Cameron Healy was in a group of men who were involved in a brawl in Dundee following the match, which Aberdeen won 2-0.
Police moved in to arrest one of the protagonists and move a crowd back in the city’s Whitehall Crescent, near the city’s main shopping centres.
But instead of complying Healy tried to get officers to fight with him.
And even when he was handcuffed the “volatile” teenager continued to try to “goad” officers.
Depute fiscal Trina Sinclair told Dundee Sheriff Court there had been “serious disorder” across Dundee before and after the match.
She said: “At 6pm a fight broke out between rival supporters resulting in one man being arrested.
“The accused was amongst the group and police witnesses observed him walking towards officers who had arrested the male.
“Police witnesses directed him to move back.
“The rest of the group did so apart from the accused who was volatile and continually refused to move away.
“He was told he would be arrested if he failed to desist.
“He continued to challenge officers to fight and was restrained and arrested.
“He was handcuffed and continued to goad officers in a similar manner, again challenging them to fight.”
Healy, 17, of Emmock Woods Court, Dundee, pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner while on bail.
Jim Laverty, defending, said: “This is a young man with a limited record.”
Sheriff George Way imposed a community payback order with supervision and 110 hours’ unpaid work.
He also placed Healy on a restriction of liberty order, meaning he will wear an electronic tag and be confined to his home from 7pm until 7am daily.
However, he refused a Crown motion to impose a football banning order.
In another case, the crown called for a football banning order for a man who was found in possession of weighted knuckle gloves and was challenging people to fight.
Louis George Harvey, 16, of Fintryside, admitted committing both offences on the day Dundee United played Aberdeen.
He was one of a large group in Union Street on December 13, and was changed with breach of the peace and possessing the weapons.
However his defence solicitor Gary McIlravey said the gloved weapons did not belong to Harvey, and he only accepted picking them up from the ground and putting them in his pocket.
This was disputed by the crown which maintains he was wearing them, according to the police report.
Sheriff Way said: “This type of item has no other purpose. These are offensive weapons in the true sense of the word as they are designed only to hurt people.”
A proof of mitigation hearing was set for March 11, to ascertain how Harvey had come into possession of the weighted knuckle gloves.
He was granted bail and the crown asked that a football banning order be considered in the meantime.