A SERIAL offender has been given more jail time after making false claims to police that the new boyfriend of his "ex" was firing a gun outside her house.

James Muir also banged and kicked at his former partner’s door as well as being involved in a £2,000 bogus builder scam.

Muir, 28, from Glasgow, appeared from custody at Alloa Sheriff Court for crimes committed in 2021.

He is currently in jail for other offences.

He admitted that between August 1and September 21, 2021, he formed a fraudulent scheme and obtained £2,000 by fraud at Viewlands Terrace, Perth.

He had told the home owners that he would do work on their driveway, took money from them and disappeared having done nothing.

Then on October 1 in 2021, at The Maltings, Tullibody, he repeatedly shouted, swore and repeatedly banged and kicked doors, demanding that his former partner came outside.

He then made a phone call to police, falsely claiming that a man was in possession of a handgun at The Maltings and had discharged it in the back garden.

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Depute fiscal Sean Iles said that in the call Muir claimed that the man was shooting at birds in the garden.

Sheriff William Gilchrist told Muir: “You have a very bad record with numerous jail sentences.”

He jailed him for 15 months to run consecutively to his current sentence.