NOT being able to get out of the house for social work appointments but managing to go and get methadone resulted in a sheriff losing patience with a Ballingry thief.

Laura Adam, 31, of Martin Crescent, was jailed for three months after appearing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday for a review of a community payback order.

She had previously been placed on the order as punishment for stealing three jars of coffee, various household products and deodorants from the Co-op store in Lochore on July 15, 2015.

On August 26, 2015, she also stole three jars of coffee from the same store.

Defence solicitor Stephen Morrison admitted his client's report on her breached community payback order didn't make for encouraging reading.

"She failed to attend her last five supervision appointments," he said. "The crux of the failure appears to be the lapsing in her anti depressant medication."

He said Adam suffered from acute anxiety and would venture out to get her methadone prescription, return home and spend the day in the house, a lot of the time in bed.

Sheriff Charles Macnair said the offences were committed over a year ago and Adam had initially been given the opportunity of an unpaid work order as an alternative to a fine.

"You breached that, you were given another opportunity of a level one community payback order this time with supervision," he said. "You breached that, I am told, because you find it difficult to get out of the house but it is noticeable you can get out of the house when you want to in order to get your methadone.

"It is only when you are doing something which you don't want, namely the supervision, that you find it so difficult to get out of the house.

"You have been given one chance, there was a second breach of the order and you have a bad record. I am not prepared to give you any other chance. All orders have to be complied with and it is not for the accused to pick and choose when they choose to do so."