A 27-YEAR-OLD man who turned up in court wearing shorts as temperatures outside were in the sizzling seventies has been reprimanded by a sheriff.

Darren Dixon had just admitted being involved in a bust-up with his partner over a George Foreman Lean Mean Grilling Machine when he received his dressing down from a sheriff.

He entered the dock at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Thursday wearing a blue t-shirt and long blue shorts to plead guilty to breaking girlfriend Toni Boone’s Samsung Tablet.

Sheriff Peter Paterson said: “If you turn up to court in shorts again you will be held in contempt of court. It is completely unacceptable.” Dixon, of Woodstock Avenue, Galashiuels, apologised for his attire.

The court was told Dixon grabbed hold of the portable computer and broke it against his knee before throwing it out of the window of their house on April 20.

Procurator fiscal Graham Fraser said: “They had been together for four years and their relationship can be described as up and down.

“They had an argument of sorts and he said she had broken a Lean Mean Grilling Machine so he broke her Samsung Tablet. There is no excuse for this behaviour.” Defence lawyer Ross Dow said the couple were no longer in a relationship. He admitted: “It was an unsavoury incident.” Dixon was fined £125 and ordered to pay Ms Boone £100 in compensation.