A MUGGER who snatched a mobile phone from a woman in a Dunfermline park has had five months added onto his current jail sentence.

Jamie Muir, 25, of Keir Hardie Terrace, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on Wednesday after earlier admitting the theft, which took place on October 10 at a footpath at Comely Park.

Last month the Press reported that Muir had been been sentenced to four months in prison for a shoplifting offence and breaching a court ordered curfew just days after he had been granted bail following the phone offence.

After being jailed for a further eight months at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week for throwing boiling water from a kettle over another inmate while he was in Barlinnie Prison, he has now had his release date extended further.

Solicitor James Moncrieff said his client had difficulties with substance misuse.

"He had received some support and had been doing quite well after being released from a period of custody," he told the court. "He was aware there was an outstanding matter from his time in custody and knew he was likely to be receiving a jail sentence and that was in the back of his mind.

"He accepts that as a result he let himself go and all the offences stem from that. This was done with the intention of selling it to obtain funds to fund his drug habit."

Sheriff Michael Fletcher said he had no alternative but to deal with the matter by way of a custodial sentence.