A 16-year-old tearaway, who has committed 21 drink-related offences since October, was sent back to Cornton Vale women's prison yesterday.
Christina Taylor, who achieved notoriety when a sheriff placed her on a round-the-clock curfew last year in a bid to stop her drunken offending, yesterday admitted throwing stones at a police station.
At Arbroath Sheriff Court, Sheriff Norrie Stein said he had no option but to remand the teenager after a social worker said that alternative accommodation could not be provided elsewhere.
Sheriff Stein said that, since October, Taylor, of Bruce Road, Arbroath, had been convicted of 15 charges of breach of the peace, one charge of vandalism, three charges of assaulting police and resisting arrest, one drunk and incapable charge and one charge of culpable and reckless conduct.
The teenager has been remanded in Cornton Vale on numerous occasions, but was given a final chance by Sheriff Stein last month after she committed five breaches of the peace just a month after she had been released from a 90-day sentence.
She was put on probation for a year and ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service.
But her drunkenness landed her in trouble again just a few weeks later when she was arrested outside Arbroath police station after she threw a stone through a window into a room where there were six police officers.
The case was adjourned until June 15 for five separate background reports.
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