A 21-year-old man was jailed for three months for repeatedly shouting and swearing and demanding entry to an Inverness home after a family funeral, while brandishing a pair of garden shears.
Kurt Hercher dropped the shears after being refused entry but ran round the house at Bruce Gardens and barged his way inside.
He admitted the charge at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday.
Fiscal depute Alex Swain told the court that Hercher had attended the front door of the house at about 10.45pm on July 1 last year, and a witness came to the door and saw Hercher sitting on the doorstep with the shears.
Hercher asked for the householder but the witness told him he would not be getting into the property.
He then went round the back of the property and and barged his way past another witness in the kitchen who told him to “get out,” and Hercher was pushed out of the house.
Miss Swain added that police attended the property at about 11.20pm and found the shears at the front door and later tracked down the accused.
Defence solicitor Patrick O’Dea said that his client failed to recall the details of the event because he was “heavily intoxicated” and had taken recreational drugs.
But Mr O’Dea added that, for the first time, his client was starting to get help for his problems.