A GREENOCK man smashed a bottle of Irn-Bru at a hospital after being told he would not be taken into a psychiatric unit.

Michael Bell, 26, also repeatedly punched and kicked glass doors and a wall and shouted abuse at staff at Inverclyde Royal.

He had gone to the hospital’s Langhill Clinic for a third time in recent weeks hoping to be admitted.

But he reacted furiously after a doctor refused to have him detained because he believed Bell ‘wasn’t so bad’.

He appeared from custody at Greenock Sheriff Court to plead guilty to the breach of peace on 30 July.

Depute fiscal Lindy Scaife said: “Mr Bell attended the clinic, was seen by a doctor and assessed.

“He became agitated and annoyed waiting for the doctor to return.

“The doctor told him that he was not going to be admitted and at that point the accused went into the car park to meet his partner outside.

“An argument ensued with him shouting and swearing at her.

“The doctor approached him and he began to shout, kick glass doors and a wall.

“He had arrived at the clinic in possession of a glass bottle of Irn-Bru which, when the doctor tried to explain why he was not being detained, he smashed outside the accident and emergency department.” Solicitor Gerry Keenan said Bell had been sent to the unit by a doctor and that he was not on any medication at the time of the offence.

He said: “This is not the usual hospital breach when one sees drunk people attending at A&E causing trouble for the staff.

“He felt so bad that he thought he should be taken in.

“A doctor said he wasn’t so bad that he would be detained.” Bell, of Propecthill View, had been in custody since the incident happened.

Sheriff Rajni Swanney deferred sentencing for background reports and granted him bail.

He will be sentenced at the court next month.