A BALLOCH man has been given a final chance to show up for a meeting with social workers for a background report – after developing a drug addiction.
At Dumbarton Sheriff Court last week, Mathew Howitt’s solicitor admitted his client had put himself in “an extremely unsatisfactory situation” by missing an appointment with officials last month because he’d developed a “relatively late-onset heroin addiction”.
The contents of the as-yet-unwritten report will shape how the 55-year-old is punished after pleading guilty to a charge of putting his ex-partner in fear or alarm by going to an address in Cook Road on August 24.
Sheriff Maxwell Hendry ordered Howitt, of Carmona Drive, to go straight from court to the local social work office to arrange an appointment.
Sentence was deferred until December 1.
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