A CROSSHILL man was this week given a four months' jail sentence for a string of offences.

Lee McLaren, 39, of Benarty Avenue, is already serving a 32 month custodial sentence and his new punishment will run consecutively to this.

Appearing for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday, he had previously admitted that on October 19, 2014 at Meadows Court, Crosshill, he entered an insecure car and stole a compact disc player from it.

Between November 20 and 21, 2014 at Mucklestone Court, he forced open a lockfast vehicle and stole a quantity of power tools while between November 21 and 23, 2014, at Main Street, Crosshill, he entered an insecure car and stole a rucksack containing a coin dispenser and money, a driving licence, a pencil case, a water bottle, tie, a prescription form, papers and a tyre pump.

On July 24, 2016 at Benarty Avenue, Crosshill and within a police vehicle on route to Victoria Hospital, he also behaved in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by shouting, swearing, throwing items around, uttering threats of violence and kicking the interior of a police vehicle.

On October 16, 2016 at Eldersknowe, Ballingry, you also behaved in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm in that he shouted, swore, struggled and fought with a woman residing there and uttered abusive remarks towards her and uttered threats of violence towards police officers.

Sheriff Derek Reekie told McLaren a further custodial sentence was inevitable.