A drunk train passenger caught without a ticket made vile sexual remarks towards a female rail worker.
Finlay McMartin was travelling on the train between Motherwell and Haymarket Station in Edinburgh just days after being released from prison.
The rail worker spotted McMartin, who was with another man, trying to lit a cigarette on board.
After she asked them for their tickets and learned neither man had one, both became aggressive.
Another rail employee came to help but McMartin said: “I’m not being funny right, I’m going to s**g you.”
McMartin, 39, was warned by the staff not to talk in that fashion.
He then said: “Naw, naw, I’m going to s**g you.”
McMartin appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday and pled guilty to the offence, which took place on January 21.
He admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by acting aggressively towards the worker, repeatedly uttering sexually offensive remarks and refusing to stop when asked, and repeatedly trying to light a cigarette on the train.
Fiscal depute Callum Thomson told the court the incident started at around 7.15pm.
He said rail staff told McMartin and the other man they’d have to leave the train if they didn’t have tickets.
Mr Thomson added the pair appeared to be “very drunk”.
McMartin then made the sexual remarks, the court heard.
Mr Thomson said police were waiting at Haymarket Station when the train arrived at 7.55pm.
He added the encounter left the worker feeling “shocked and angry”.
Defence agent Aafia Majid said McMartin, of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, had recently secured employment.
She said he had “alcohol issues” which he was working to address, and was “embarrassed” by his behaviour although “did not remember a lot of it”.
Ms Majid said her client had been jailed last July for another offence and was only released from prison in early January.
Sheriff Adrian Cottam said the incident was “exceptionally unpleasant” but welcomed McMartin’s steps to “sort yourself out”.
He ordered him to pay the victim £200 in compensation.
