A MAN was caught hiding from police on the deck of a well-known steam boat.

Mark Hully, 29, hid on the TS Queen Mary, that was moored at Pacific Quay, on August 14, 2017 after a security guard patrolling the area called the police.

Hully appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court this week from custody, having pleaded guilty to hiding on the boat while he was on bail.

The Procurator Fiscal Depute told the court:" The steam ship is at Pacific Quay and is currently subject to restoration work.

"It is moored by ropes, and there are scrap metals nearby.

"Around 12.28am, the witness was at the Science Centre in his capacity as a security guard when he noticed on a CCTV screen two people on the quayside near the Queen Mary ship.

"They were close to a skip which had scrap metal inside.

"Police attended and they were aware of noise coming from the vessel."

Police approached the ship, which was built in the 1930s, and ordered anyone on board to identify themselves.

The court heard: "Several challenges were shouted out that anyone on board should make themselves known as the police dog was about to be discharged."

Nobody came forward, and when officers went on to the ship they found Hully "hiding on the upper deck".

On the quayside, police also found a black bag containing three knives, several pairs of gloves, and a roll of black binbags.

Hully was arrested and charged with assuming to be attempting to commit theft, which he pleaded guilty to.

His lawyer explained that his client was struggling with a drug addiction at the time and explained: "In the vicinity of the vessel was a quantity of scrap metal. He intended to take this to fund his habit."

The solicitor said his client was in a better position now than he had been in the past "to some extent" and said he was no longer "misusing drugs".

Hully also pleaded guilty being in possession of heroin, which was found in his cell in Barlinnie during a search by prison guards on September 23, 2016.

The Procurator Fiscal Depute told the court security officers had found letters on Hully's desk, and among them a scrap of white folded paper which contained brown powder.

It was later found to be heroin.

Sheriff Bonnar deferred sentence for Hully, of Drumoyne Road, for reports to come in.

He also refused him bail "because of the risk of commissioning other offences"

He will be sentenced next month.