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A Dundee man who “flipped” and smashed the windscreens of three cars in Carnoustie was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work at Arbroath Sheriff Court.

Joseph Winter admitted carrying out the offences on August 21 on Thomson Avenue and MacLagan Road. Winter also admitted repeatedly kicking and banging on the door of a property on Thomson Avenue on the same date.

Depute fiscal Hazel Anderson told the court the 20-year-old was in Carnoustie seeing a woman he was in a relationship with for six weeks before that night.

She said: “They had been out to celebrate his birthday and were both under the influence of alcohol when an argument ensued and he began calling her a sausage.

“She was embarrassed in front of her friends and told him not to come back to her home. He didn’t listen and an argument ensued, and he began shouting, kicking and banging on her door.

“She feared the neighbours would hear him and let him into the house but he continued to shout and swear.

“He was put out of the house again and as he walked along the road he jumped on the bonnet of a car and jumped on its windscreen, causing it to smash.

“He did this to another two cars before the police arrived.”

Defence agent David Sinclair said Winter, of Stracathro Terrace, had felt a sense of insecurity while out with the 30-year-old woman and her friends and had “cloaked himself in drink”.

He said: “He referred to the complainer as a sausage and he is told that she no longer wishes to be in his company. He had no means of getting home and he flipped out and has taken out his anger on these cars.”

Sheriff Gregor Murray told Winter: “It is with some hesitation that I am prepared to place you on a community payback order.

“You will be subject to supervision for two years, required to undertake counselling on alcohol and 200 hours of unpaid work, reduced from 300 hours as a result of your early plea, which is the maximum amount I can give you.”