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A one-legged alcoholic who was so drunk he didn’t realise he had been hit by a TRAIN has appeared in court over another drunken escapade.

Paisley Sheriff Court was told Barry McInally, 28, is lucky to be alive after climbing over a level crossing barrier on to railway tracks.

He lost a leg in the accident and only regained consciousness in hospital two weeks later – to be told that surgeons had amputated the limb.

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McInally, of North Road in Johnstone, limped in to the dock from the cells at court yesterday on a separate matter that happened in a pub.

His defence agent Terry Gallanagh said his life had been “blighted through addiction to alcohol.”

Mr Gallanagh also said things had become so bad that members of his family had cut off all contact because of his drunken antics.

He told the court McInally had been so drunk a year ago, while visiting the Ayrshire town of Ardrossan, that he climbed over a barrier at a level crossing and was struck by a train, losing a leg.

“He has no recollection of the incident at all.

“The first he knew about it was when he awoke two weeks later in hospital,” said Mr Gallanagh.

McInally admitted to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear and alarm to others at Collier’s bar in, Johnstone, on October 26.

Depute fiscal Hazel Emmerson said that police had been called and were speaking to the accused in relation to another matter when he suddenly became abusive and began to shout and swear.

He was subsequently arrested and, as the officers attempted to lead him away, he challenged them to “a square go” then spat in the direction of one of them.

Mr Gallanagh said McInally is currently serving a 19-month sentence, which was imposed in November last year for similar public disorder offences.

After studying the accused’s record, Sheriff Colin Pettigrew told him that, due to his list of previous convictions and the nature of the offences, a custodial disposal could not be avoided.

“We will not have people spitting towards a police officer,” he said.

Sheriff Pettigrew jailed McInally for six months, to run consecutively to the sentence he is serving.

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