A TEENAGER charged with knifing his ex-partner whilst out on bail has failed in a bid to be released from custody.

Jamie Murphy has been locked up on remand since May accused of attacking the woman to injury within her own home.

Prosecutor David McDonald opposed bail, citing the 'serious nature of the allegations' against the 19-year-old.

Murphy is said to have repeatedly punched her on the head, threw furniture and other household items at her, seized her by the hair and punched her on the body multiple times.

He is further alleged to have compressed the woman's throat with his hands and struck her on the body with a knife.

Murphy is also accused of behaving in a 'threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm' by shouting, swearing, making threats of violence, brandishing a knife and striking walls with a knife.

He is further charged with possession of the class A drug ecstasy and with giving a false name to police with intent to pervert the course of justice.

The alleged offences are said to have been committed within a house near Greenock Prison and at the town's police office on May 14.

Murphy maintained pleas of not guilty to the indictment charges through lawyer Gerry Keenan at the latest calling of the case at the sheriff court.

The motion for bail was refused by Sheriff Joseph Hughes, with the case due to call again on December 8.