Inverness scaffolder jailed nine months after failing to comply with payback orders
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A MAN was jailed for nine months after he failed several times to comply with community payback orders.
Reece Taylor (22) of Bruce Gardens, Inverness, appeared at Inverness Sheriff Court to be sentenced for breaching the order which also had a deferred sentence for a threatening behaviour offence in May 2020 running alongside it.
Taylor had been warned he would be jailed if he offended again after being sentenced in 2019 for two assaults on his partner.
One involved him kicking her twice after a row over a mobile phone and the other when he pushed her, causing her to bang her head on a cooker.
He was sentenced to 200 hours unpaid work despite two previous breaches of a community payback order involving unpaid work.
In May 2020 the scaffolder appeared again after causing a disturbance at his partner’s property after a row which led to a break-up.
Defence solicitor David Patterson said at the time: “He has drug and anger issues, but is on a community payback order and is benefiting from the supervision. But the court will be losing patience with him.”
Sentence was deferred on that occasion to see how Taylor cooperated with the order.
At his latest review, Sheriff Sara Matheson heard he had breached the order three times and jailed him.
