A COWDENBEATH man headed down the town’s High Street carrying a machete on a Saturday night.

He was spotted by young women who were in a car and so concerned that they called the police.

Thomas McDonald, 26, of Broad Street, Cowdenbeath, went on trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court following the incident.

CCTV images were shown of McDonald walking in the High Street and passing Partner’s Bar, where many people were standing and milling about.

Charlotte Crawford, 20, told the Court she had been driving through Cowdenbeath and stopped her car so that a friend could get money from a cash machine.

As she waited she saw a man pass-by carrying a machete by his side. “He was wearing a Rangers top and joggies,” she said.

“He was a couple of feet away in front of my car.”

Ms Crawford said she worried about her friend at the ATM as she was pregnant.

When she came back to the car, the witness drove off then stopped along the road and called 999.

“They said it wasn’t the only call they had received about it,” added Ms Crawford.

Depute fiscal, Dev Kapadia, showed the witness CCTV images of McDonald walking down the street and passed Partners bar wearing a Rangers top.

She said she thought the images looked like the man in the dock.

Lauren Jarrett, 21, was in Ms Crawford’s car and saw McDonald, someone she knew.

“He pulled something from his trousers. It was long, I thought it was a knife.”

At the close of the Crown case, McDonald pled guilty to one of two charges he faced.

He admitted that on August 13 last year at High Street, Cowdenbeath, he was in possession of a machete.

Sheriff Craig McSherry called for reports and sentence was deferred until 30th August.