AN IRATE and intoxicated Port Glasgow woman stormed through a supermarket challenging customers to a fight after threatening to kill another woman - having just returned from a funeral.

Taylor Smith accosted two witnesses and a child outside the Port's Tesco store, running over to them in the car park while shouting and swearing, Greenock Sheriff Court was told.

Smith, 26, alighted from a taxi after noticing the complainer and shouted: "Once I get you on your own I'm gonnae kill you."

A procurator fiscal depute told the court: "The accused followed the witnesses into Tesco shouting 'I'll kill you, wait until I've got my hands on you'.

"One of the witnesses informed a security guard at the supermarket who observed the incident from CCTV cameras.

"The manager of the shop was called to the front door and proceeded to form a barrier with the security guard and other colleagues in an attempt to usher the accused out of the store."

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Smith exited the shop but then re-entered, shouting and swearing.

She returned twice more and on the last occasion made her way past the self-service checkouts before walking through the store shouting and stating that she was 'gonnae smash' a woman.

The fiscal depute said Smith 'walked through the aisles challenging customers to a fight'.

Police were called and attended to escort Smith out of the shop during the May 10 incident - but as she was leaving she kicked out at an electric barrier causing it to break.

Defence lawyer Aidan Gallagher said: "There was a connection between the female referred to and the accused.

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"Ms Smith had attended a funeral that day and consumed alcohol.

"The comments were concerning but the criminal justice social work report is positive."

Smith is currently subject to a community payback order (CPO), imposed in June this year, with a supervision requirement and unpaid work hours that have almost been completed.

Sheriff Anthony McGeehan told her: "Mr Gallagher has properly recognised and described your behaviour as unacceptable.

"It is also shameful and you should be thoroughly ashamed of your behaviour.

"Intoxication is not an excuse but it obviously contributed on the day."

Smith, of Auchenbothie Road, was given another CPO as a direct alternative to a custodial sentence.

She must complete 90 hours of unpaid work within six months, reduced from 100 hours after her guilty pleas at a trial diet.