A DUNFERMLINE man’s first time delivering motorhomes went disastrously and ended in a three-month jail sentence.

Richard Grant had just started his new job delivering the vehicles but things went wrong when he ran out of fuel.

Grant decided to have a sleep in the vehicle and police were called when the motorhome was left blocking access to a poultry farm.

Richard Grant, 30, of Elgin Street, Dunfermline, admitted that on August 17, at Greenknowes Poultry Farm, Kelty, he resisted a police constable and struggled with him whereby he was struck on the head and body to his injury.

Depute fiscal Jade Doig told Dunfermline Sheriff Court: “Police were contacted at 8.20am in relation to a motorhome blocking access.”

An officer was allowed into the vehicle and found that Grant was lying sleeping.

“The constable shook the accused while he was lying on his side and told him he was a police officer. He wasn’t very happy about this. He sat up and there was some discussion with the accused expressing his displeasure,” said the depute.

“The officer went to arrest the accused and there was a struggle between the two. The accused was swinging his arm about and the officer was struck in the face.

“The accused was then dragged along the floor and handcuffed.”

The officer sustained cuts and bruises.

Defence solicitor Gwen Haggerty said: “He had obtained a job with a motorhome company. This was his first time delivering a motorhome and it ran out of fuel in the early hours of the morning. The owner of the poultry farm called the police.”

She said her client recognised his behaviour had been “unacceptable”.

The court heard Grant had been given early release from a previous jail term when he committed his latest offences.

Sheriff Charles MacNair said: “The police officer was quite clearly trying to do his job because of where you had put your vehicle. If you had co-operated, it would have been resolved quickly but of course you didn’t.”