A 24-year-old Dunfermline man who ignored a ‘tag’, breaching it up to three times a day, is now behind bars.

Adam Smith, of Golfdrum Street, “thumbed his nose” at the court order and repeatedly left his house during his hours of restriction.

Between November 9 and 28 he breached the order more than 30 times, and as a result he appeared back at Dunfermline Sheriff Court from custody.

Sheriff Susan Duff told Smith: “You’ve completely thumbed your nose at this order.”

She jailed him for four months in place of the original sentence.

The two-month restriction of liberty order had been imposed a month earlier.

Smith had admitted that on August 18 at Melville Gardens, Burntisland, he repeatedly struck the door with his hands and kicked at it in an attempt to force entry to the flat.

Then on September 20 at the Kingsgate shopping centre, Dunfermline, he breached an undertaking condition by approaching and communicating with a male having been ordered not to do so.

The court was told Smith had caused the disturbance outside the home of a 17-year-old youth and had then spoke to him in the Kingsgate Centre having been ordered to have no contact with him.