A MAN with a string of crimes against a woman has been ordered to do a two-year course tackling his behaviour.

Samuel Bain had previously pleaded guilty to offences including assaults - and even leaping over the front desk inside Clydebank police office.

The 31-year-old returned to Dumbarton Sheriff Court on September 10 for sentencing over a number of cases, all while on bail.

Around 12.15am on May 31 last year, Bain and his partner were involved in an argument on Kilbowie Road, Clydebank, and a CCTV operator alerted police.

He pushed her on the body and repeatedly punched her on the head and body.

When officers arrived, they saw the woman was upset with bruising under her eye. The man replied "bullsh*t" when cautioned and charged.

Then around 8.35pm on June 16, 2023, at Dalmuir Court, he assaulted the woman, pursued her, pulled her on the body, repeatedly punched and kicked her on the body and caused her to fall to the ground, all to her injury.

A female friend of the victim tried to intervene and was also dragged to the ground where Bain pulled her by the hair before he made off. It was again captured on CCTV.

On November 23 last year, he was at Clydebank police office around 6.40pm and became erratic and abusive and repeatedly challenged the authority of cops.

He stated they weren't "real police officers" and jumped over the front counter and entered a restricted area.

This year, on June 13 and 14, despite bail orders that he not approach his ex, he repeatedly turned up at her property and repeatedly sent voicemail messages.

Bain, previously of Roman Crescent, Old Kilpatrick, Alsatian Avenue, Clydebank, and now Haldane Court, Balloch, previously admitted the domestic assaults from May and June last year as well as assaulting a second woman last June.

He further admitted his behaviour at the police office and to breaching bail conditions in June.

He was on bail for all the offences and the domestic assaults were aggravated by being against a partner or ex.

Social workers had assessed that he was suitable to undertake the Caledonian Men's Programme which tackles the behaviour of abusive men.

For the May 2023 case, Sheriff Lorna Anderson sentenced Bain to a two-year community payback order which is the time required for the programme.

His progress will be reviewed in December when the question of a non-harassment order to protect the woman will be considered. Sentence was deferred on the other three cases until then.