A 42-year-old Ardrossan man has been jailed for two months after he admitted to making abusive phone calls to an elderly relative.

Bryan Hogg made unwanted phone calls to the 77-year-old man and uttered threats from his home in McDowall Avenue on September 30 last year.

The elderly man had been at home with his son when Hogg phoned sounding “angry and aggressive” over not receiving money from him.

Hogg had told the pensioner: “If you don’t give me money I’m coming over and getting it.”

Hogg then said that he wanted t-shirts, which the elderly relative advised had been given to him.

At this point the man’s son took the phone from his father and he heard Hogg saying: “I want my stuff. Give me my f****** stuff. I’m going to stab you. I’ll put you in the f****** ground.”

He then said “I want my f****** money” and the call ended. The house phone rang another few times without conversation.

The pensioner’s son answered and told Hogg to leave his dad alone, adding: “You’re wasting your own money.”

The son contacted the police because his father felt alarmed and intimidated.

Hogg was at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court last week for sentencing after pleading guilty at a previous diet.

When he had first appeared at court in October, Sheriff David Hall had warned him: “You have a serious record and this is a nasty offence and you could go to jail.”

But Hogg’s solicitor Alexander Brown said that his client was upset that he had alarmed the elderly man and that he had abided with his bail conditions and not contacted the pensioner or his son since.

Jailing Hogg last week, Sheriff Hall said: “You pled guilty at the first opportunity so I will reduce your sentence.”

Hogg was sentenced to 60 days imprisonment.