A SAUCHIE teenager will face the next nine months in Polmont after the courts finally ran out of patience last week.

Angus Cowan received a 19-month sentence at Alloa Sheriff Court last Thursday (30 April) for assault offences and for failing to obey court orders on a number of occasions.

The 18-year-old appeared before Sheriff Wyllie Robertson on a range of matters including repeated breaches of an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO).

He also admitted breaching two community payback orders which were handed out for assault convictions last year.

Sheriff Robertson told the youngster that he had exhausted all alternatives due to his continued disregard for court orders.

The youngsters’ convictions stretch back to early 2013 when he was convicted of assault to severe injury.

On 29 March, just six weeks after his 16th birthday, he whilst acting with another or others did assault a man on Argyll Street, Alloa.

He repeatedly punched him on the head before striking him with a bin, to his injury.

He was found guilty before a sheriff and jury in Stirling and given a community payback order.

Cowan was also found guilty of assault by shining a laser beam in a man’s eye at the Alloa Business Centre on 10 June 2013.

This offence also included two counts of breaching a court-ordered curfew.

He was then convicted of repeatedly punching another man to the head in a Sauchie newsagent on 18 July 2014, along with two more curfew infringements.

Cowan, having been made subject to an ASBO in August 2013, then broke the order on 23 July 2014, having been found in the company of someone whom he was prohibited from having contact with in public places.

He further broke the ASBO on 17 April 2015 – during which time the court papers say he was on four separate counts of bail.

Cowan appeared from custody last Thursday to receive his sentence.

Sheriff Robertson told the teen: “In light of the poor social work and CPO breach reports, as well as the nature of the various offences before the court and your repeated failure to comply with orders, the court has no alternative here.

“You are still not disassociating from your offending behaviour and I am satisfied that detention is appropriate.” Sheriff Robertson imposed a 10 month sentence for breaching the CPO for the bin assault in Alloa in 2013, and six months for breaching the laser beam CPO.

These terms will run concurrently with each other.

The sheriff then told Cowan he would have to serve a consecutive nine-month sentence for the newsagent assault in 2014.

This order came with additional eight-month sentences for the both curfew breach and ASBO breach, but will run concurrent to the nine-month assault tariff.

In total, the Cowan was sentenced to 19 months’ at HMYOI Polmont. However, due to early release provisions, the teenager will remain in custody at least until February next year.

It is thought he could be released shortly before his 19th birthday.