A FATHER of two who became abusive after going into a Subway to order a six-inch has been jailed for 12 months.

Michael Cairns, 26, had been drinking heavily before he entered the shop in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, for a 3pm snack, Stirling Sheriff Court was told earlier this month.

Prosecutor Khadija Sarwar said a senior shop worker, noticed he was behaving aggressively and moved over to deal with him.

Cairns responded by threatening to “come back later to get” the employee, Ms Sarwar said.

Police were called and found him in the doorway of the shop, with a Stanley knife in his back pocket.

Cairns, of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, pleaded guilty to behaving in a threatening and abusive manner, and possessing a lock knife, in the encounter at the Subway on Shillinghill, Alloa, on July 2.

Imposing the jail term, Sheriff Kevin Veal said Cairns’ record could “be properly described as formidable”.

He added: “Given his record, if he is seen with a knife at all, only one inference is likely to be drawn.”

Cairns was previously locked up for more than two years for carrying out a serious assault in 2013.

He and an accomplice tied a man to a chair and beat him during a drink fuelled night in Cairns’ Tillicoultry flat.

When the victim broke free, he was beaten unconscious.
The duo then tried to lift the stricken man to his nearby flat – a few floors below in the same block.

However, while trying to so they lost hold of him, causing him to fall and bang his head. He was then dumped on his bed.

Doctors later discovered a blood clot in his brain and a sheriff later remarked the two thugs were lucky that the Crown had accepted they were not responsible for dropping him.