A RHU teenager has been ordered to pay £150 in compensation after smashing a window in the course of a row in the centre of Helensburgh.

Pearce Sommerville, 19, of Torr Crescent, appeared in court last Thursday after pleading guilty to charges of wilfully or recklessly damaging property and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner in West Clyde Street on May 15 last year.

Both offences were committed while Sommerville was on bail.

Sommerville was also supposed to appear for a review of a community payback order imposed for a separate offence – but his solicitor told the court that while her client had been of good behaviour since his last appearance in the dock, no formal report was available on his progress.

Lauren Kerr said: “I understand the order is progressing well. On the last occasion there was a suggestion that he should save some money; he has £150 with him today and would be in a position to pay a compensation order.”

Sheriff William Gallacher told Sommerville to pay the money he had brought with him in compensation to the owner of the window.

On a charge of repeatedly shouting, swearing, pursuing two people along West Clyde Street and acting in an aggressive manner on the same date, Sommerville was admonished and dismissed.