A Hawick woman who admitted breaching a community-based sentence for the third time was jailed for four months at Jedburgh Sheriff Court on Friday.
Emma Elliot’s solicitor maintained her client had made significant changes to her life during the past year, but Sheriff Derrick McIntyre said continued breaches made a complete mockery of the system.
Twenty-four-year-old Elliot, of Princes Street, also had sentence deferred until June 28 on two further complaints after she pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for two children and resetting a stolen mobile phone.
Elliot claimed to have succumbed to pressure when she agreed to buy a half-bottle of Buckfast for an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old at the Co-op supermarket in Kenilworth Avenue, Hawick, on September 30, 2011.
The court heard how the two children had clubbed together for the alcohol which they drank in a nearby car park.
Elliot reset a stolen mobile phone at Melrose Court, Hawick, on May 8 last year.
Man assaulted teenager, 15
A teenager was treated for a sprained wrist after a drunken man twisted her hand as he tried to retrieve his mobile phone.
Robert Easton, 36, of Princes Street, Hawick, also shouted and swore, throwing items around a house in the Borders.
Easton admitted causing fear and alarm, and assaulting a 15-year-old, on December 30 last year.
Defending, Greig McDonell said his client, a first offender, appreciated his behaviour was out of order.
Sentence had previously been deferred for Easton to be of good behaviour.
Sheriff Derrick McIntyre fined the accused £250, telling him: “You have been of good behaviour for six months, but this was an assault.”
Did not provide information
Failing to provide information relating to child support regulations cost Paul Richardson a £160 fine.
Richardson, 39, of Drumlanrig Place, Hawick, admitted failing to provide information at his home on September 7, 2011.
Caught with knuckleduster
Caught with a knuckleduster, Christopher Davidson claimed to have found it outside his flat during the early hours of the morning.
But Sheriff Derrick McIntyre pondered: “Is it credible to find a knuckleduster in a flower bed in Hawick?”
Davidson, 25, of Dickson Street, pleaded guilty to having an offensive weapon in Albert Road, Hawick, on January 6.
“His position is that he found it outside his flat in the early hours of the morning,” said defence lawyer Alison Marshall.
Miss Marshall added: “He no longer associates with the people he did.”
Miss Marshall stressed that while her client had the knuckleduster, there was no question of him using it.
Sentence was deferred until August 2 for good behaviour and to monitor Davidson’s compliance with current community payback orders.