A MAN has been jailed following a baseball bat and knife fight in an Alloa car park.

Kevin Boon, 29, began swinging the bat at a man armed with a blade before both fled when the Tesco store guard called police.

Michael Maguire, prosecuting, said the supermarket and car park, on Auld Brig Road, was busy with shoppers at the time of the incident, at around 5pm on November 11 last year.

A worker at the store heard a disturbance and saw Boon and another man arguing.

Boon, who was wearing a black tracksuit and black baseball cap, was brandishing a baseball bat which he had pulled from the waistband of his trousers, while the second man, who was masked, was brandishing a knife at Boon.

Mr Maguire said: "They began swinging at each other and the witness asked if the store security officer would call police."

Boon and the other man fled the scene, but the incident was captured on CCTV.

The accused was identified from the footage and arrested the following day at the Tarragon House homelessness shelter in the Clackmannanshire town.

At Falkirk Sheriff Court on Wednesday, February 3, Boon, of Stirling, appearing by video link from Low Moss Prison, where he is on remand.

He pleaded guilty on indictment to possessing the bat, an offensive weapon.

Solicitor Virgil Crawford, defending, said: "It was a small bat, the shape of a baseball bat, but perhaps only 24 inches long. He accepts he had it in his possession in circumstances in which it was offensive."

Jailing Boon for 12 months, Sheriff Keith O'Mahony said: "You have an extensive record for disorder and in the circumstances there's no option but a custodial disposal."