A Stirling man appeared outside a house brandishing a metal pole and mallet in a row over payment for a television which had been sold on Facebook marketplace.
Lewis Heenan, of Pelstream Avenue, admitted a charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear and alarm at an address in Bannockburn on March 21 this year.
The 24-year-old had brandished the metal pole and mallet towards two men and a woman there.
Fiscal depute Amy Sneddon told Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday there had been an argument online about money for a television advertised on Facebook marketplace.
At 9.15am on March 21 this year a red vehicle was seen by a female witness appearing outside her Bannockburn address.
A male witness then saw Heenan outside holding a metal pole in his right hand and a mallet in his left and waving them around.
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Heenan also approached a third witness in the street, a male, while holding these items.
The male and female came out of the address and Heenan was seen “swinging” the items at that time.
Heenan approached the male resident while holding the items above his head.
However, the witness pushed Heenan away from him and the accused then drove off in his vehicle.
Police were contacted and when Heenan was later cautioned and charged he made no reply.
Heenan’s agent Ken Dalling recognised that the matter was “a significant incident of public disorder” and pointed out that his client was “rightly fearful of the potential consequences”.
The accused had been living independently, but had returned to live with his parents. Heenan’s life had taken a different direction since April this year, Mr Dalling said, and the accused had changed his associates.
His family were also thinking of changing location “to move him away from negative influences”.
Sheriff Derek Hamilton told Heenan: “Your record puts you very close to custody with behaviour like this, but I can stop short of that on this occasion.”
He sentenced Heenan to a Restriction of Liberty Order (tag) for nine months confining him to his home each day between the hours of 7pm and 7am.
