AN OAKLEY man, who targeted a local car showroom repeatedly going back to smash up vehicles, has been jailed for more than seven months.

David Lorimer caused damage costing £2,250 to cars at a Comrie garage which he kept returning to in a vandalism spree.

The desperate business owner used social media to post an image of the suspect captured on CCTV.

On one occasion, Lorimer left a handwritten note on the back window of a damaged car which read: “F*** you”.

Defence solicitor Barbara Collie said: “My client cannot provide an explanation of why he acted in this manner.”

Lorimer, 32, unemployed, of Lindsays Wynd, Oakley, admitted that between February15-16 at Saline Motors, Main Street, Comrie, he wilfully or recklessly damaged front and rear windscreens, front and rear nearside windows, front and near offside windows and the front offside light of a car by smashing them.

He also admitted that on March 1, he damaged another car at the showroom by throwing an object through the rear windscreen.

On March 3, he damaged a third car there by smashing its windows and smashed two showroom windows by striking it with a weight contained within a sock, also damaging a car within the showroom when it was hit by debris.

Between March 12-13 at his home in Lindsays Wynd, he wilfully or recklessly damaged property belonging to another by punching and smashing two internal doors.

At a previous hearing, his then defence solicitor, Ralph McCran, told the court: “With regards to the locus, it is not a case that he has any form of grudge or anything like that.

“His explanation for this course of conduct was that he was not coping in the house and went out to let off steam.”

The solicitor added: “He also saw it as an easy target, a large car dealership with cars sitting outside overnight.”

Mr McCran said Lorimer used legal highs and sometimes amphetamines. “He has not had a happy or successful lifestyle and on these occasion he has cracked and let off steam.”

Lorimer was also being sentenced for the breach of a community payback order, imposed after he smashed up his sister’s bed with a shovel and assaulted her on May 10 last year. He took hold of her neck and pinned her against a wall.

Sheriff Charles Macnair said of Lorimer’s car vandalism spree: “You caused damage to their stock for no reason other than because you wanted to release tension, according to the social work report.”

Sheriff Macnair imposed consecutive sentences of four months and 100 days.