Glasgow man threw incendiary device at window
It broke the window to the danger of those inside and the address on May 6, 2023.
When he appeared over the charges in May 2023, he was granted bail with a 7pm to 7am curfew.
He subsequently broke that three times, accumulating more breaches of bail as he did.
Appearing from custody on June 17, Dumbarton Sheriff Court heard the first failure was on July 10.
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McQuillan called curfew monitor G4S just after 7pm and said he had been slashed and was going to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment.
They checked a couple hours later and he hadn't appeared at any hospital, said fiscal depute Kirsty McKenzie.
McQuillan reappeared at home at 10.22pm. Police found him clearly intoxicated and with superficial injuries. There was a knife nearby.
He gave them various accounts of what happened, and officers concluded the injuries were self-inflicted.
The 39-year-old was arrested and bailed.
A week later, G4S told police McQuillan wasn't home for curfew. Police arrived just before 1am and found the front door unlocked, but the man wasn't there.
He later turned himself in at Clydebank police office and said: "I've been fleeing violence."
Again, he was arrested and bailed.
In October, G4S were unable to get into his then home to fit a new tag monitor.
Police couldn't trace him but McQuillan later got in touch and said he had moved because the property had been broken into.
Officers had seen no evidence of this.
As well as admitting the incendiary device charge, he pleaded guilty to the breaches of curfew and bail, the last of which had lasted from October 6 to 20.
At sentencing, McQuillan's defence solicitor said his client's position was he had been attacked. He left to go to a friend's home and was going to phone an ambulance from there.
"His position was he was fleeing violence," said the solicitor of the bail breaches. He should have told G4S or his solicitor of his change of address.
Drug addiction issues had a "significant impact on his thinking" and McQuillan would need to address that to stay away from courts in future, he added.
Sheriff Frances McCartney jailed him for 18 months for the incendiary device, plus nine months of supervised release when he's free. Another 11 weeks and two months were also added on for curfew breaches.
The sentences were backdated to May 14.
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