A TEENAGER who punched a glass panel in a disturbance at Helensburgh’s main railway station failed to show up to a court-ordered meeting with social workers.

Robbie Peak, 19, of Clachan Bridge, Rosneath, was told to see social workers to enable a background report to be prepared after he admitted two charges arising from an incident outside Helensburgh Central station on December 9.

Peak admitted repeatedly shouting and swearing at police, failing to desist when asked to do so, behaving in an aggressive manner and wilfully or recklessly destroying or damaging property by punching and damaging a glass panel.

Peak, a first offender, also pleaded guilty to a further charge of being in possession of a bladed or sharply pointed item – namely a pair of scissors – without lawful authority or reasonable excuse at Clydebank police station later that same day.

His solicitor, Douglas Thomson, told Dumbarton Sheriff Court that a letter summoning Peak to an appointment with social workers on December 22 had got caught in the Christmas post and only arrived the day after the meeting was due to take place.

Sheriff William Gallacher told Peak: “I will give you the benefit of the doubt today. But when people are required to attend, and don’t, the likely consequence is that they will lose their liberty.

"I do not expect this situation to arise again.”

Sentence was further deferred until February 7.