A thug was this week jailed for a year and eight months for crimes which included causing a disturbance in the close of a block of Alva flats.
Forty-nine-year-old Gary Kelly, had admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at The Nethergate, Alva, on July 23, 2021 and assaulting a police officer there on the same date by spitting on him.
Kelly further pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting a man at a house in Grangemouth on February 6 this year to his injury with a metal pole – normally used to hold dumbbells – and rendering the man unconscious, while on bail on two other matters.