Dealing with Ranger's previous convictions for drink-driving, battery and being drunkand disorderly, Mr Forrester said they happened within a six-week period in autumn 2011, and that the battery offences for which he was given 12-month conditional discharge happened when he struggled with police having been racially abused in the street by others.
These included a 20-year-old drunk-driver stopped in Glasgow who already had three cases pending for drink-driving and a 28-year-old woman stopped in Ayr who was found to be almost four times the legal limit.