AN “excessively intoxicated” rail passenger threatened: “I've got guns” after demanding another passenger give him her juice while on a West Fife-bound train.

Scott Thomas Bradley, 45, helped himself to the woman's drink then repeatedly shouted his name at her in the incident, which happened on board the 11.40pm Edinburgh to Inverkeithing service on August 23 last year.

Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard last Wednesday that Bradley had approached the 21-year-old woman and her 22-year-old friend, who were sitting in the rear coach.

Fiscal depute Gary McMullan told the court: “The complainer had not met the accused before. The accused approached her table and requested that she give him a cup of juice.

“She felt intimidated by this, having not met him before, and ignored him. He repeatedly asked for her juice.

“He then reached over, took her juice cup, sat opposite them and started drinking the juice. He then returned the cup to her and advised that she could have it back.

“He then leaned over the table and shouted: 'Do you know who I am?' She said she didn't know and asked to leave them alone.

“He shouted:, 'I'm Scott f****** Bradley', repeating this about six times. He became more and more irate and punched the middle of the table, causing their food to scatter all over and off the table.

“He then punched the cup of juice and caused the contents to spill on the complainer.”

Bradley continued to lean over the table shouting his name, before sitting down opposite. He then shouted: “Phone your f****** friends, I've got guns.”

The woman and her friend took the opportunity to get away into the next coach when other passengers approached Bradley. She then called police to request assistance.

However, while she was on the phone, Bradley approached her saying he wanted to apologise. 

When asked to leave her alone, he walked round in front of her and shouted his name again. He then left the area and was not seen again by witnesses. 

Police officers were made aware of the incident at 7am the next day. The woman was able to identify Bradley through images shown to her and he was traced at home on October 27.

Bradley, of Flat A, 79 High Street, Kinghorn, admitted that on August 23, 2015, on a train journey between Edinburgh Waverley and Inverkeithing railway station, he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner, shouted, swore, acted in an aggressive manner towards the woman, punched a table, punched a cup containing liquid and uttered threatening remarks.

Solicitor Iain McCafferty acknowledged that due to what Bradley had shouted, “police had little difficulty in tracing him”.

He continued: “He fully accepts his behaviour is unacceptable and inexplicable. The only explanation is probably excessive intoxication. He accepts it's not an excuse.

“It's fairly irrational behaviour and he accepts it would have been a fairly distressing incident for the lady involved. 

“He appears to have tried to make an apology but then continued to shout his name. His own recollection of events is somewhat hazy but that's the situation he put himself in.

“He expresses shame and disgust at his actions. There's a record for him – when heavily intoxicated he has come to the attention of police but he's not somebody I would describe as a regular offender.”

Fining Bradley £400, Sheriff Eric Brown blasted: “Your solicitor described this behaviour as inexcusable. Consumption of alcohol is neither a defence nor excuse.”