A TEENAGER who admitted threatening and abusive behaviour towards his parents had sentence deferred for six months.
Gregor Cranston, 18, returned to the family home in Glenfield Road East, Galashiels, but was “extremely drunk and rambling incoherently”.
He then began shouting and swearing at his father, punching out in the air and pulling off his T-shirt.
Eventually the father went outside and called police due to his son’s behaviour, and threatening and abusive manner.
The teenager’s solicitor, Greg McDonnel, said: “He is deeply ashamed of his behaviour. The family have been very supportive and his father is in court.”
Mr McDonnel went on: “He needs to take control of his own life.”
But Sheriff Kevin Drummond said Cranston had been drinking alcohol since he was 14 and was drinking daily, and had been causing problems in the family home for a long time.
He said: “You have been making people’s lives a misery and now you have moved into crime. Either you can stop it or I can stop it.”
Sheriff Drummond deferred sentence until February 25 for good behaviour.