A ghoul who stole charity money from the Clutha in the wake of the helicopter tragedy has dodged jail yet again.

Charmaine Holmes has escaped being locked up for a raft of offences including stealing from the disaster-hit pub, threatening to slit a schoolboy's throat during a terrifying daylight mugging and attacking a police officer.

And yesterday (FRI) the 18-year-old escaped jail four a fourth time - for a rammy outside a house in her former home town of Paisley.

The town's sheriff court heard that Holmes - who is now living in Ardrossan, Ayrshire - flipped outside a house in the town on January 31 this year.

Lauren McGonigal, prosecuting, said Kayleigh Forrester, who lives at the house in Morar Drive, had been unwell and had friends staying over to look after her the night before.

The court heard that Holmes had been in the house but had been flung out and, once outside, tried to get back in.

McGonigal explained: "It was around 9am and the witnesses were sleeping in the living room.

"They were woken by the sound of noise and observed the accused with a companion, shouting and swearing and demanding entry.

"She walked towards the porch door and began shouting through the window, 'F****** idiots, youse are getting done in' and again demanding entry."

The fiscal depute told Sheriff Tom McCartney that Holmes believed she had left her phone and bank card in the house.

And she called the police to say that Forrester had assaulted her when she'd been inside the property.

Police attended and saw an agitated Holmes, who they believed was either drunk or on drugs.

She refused to calm down and demanded the officers force their way into the flat so she could get her stuff back.

Police spoke with Forrester and, once realising that Holmes had not been assaulted, they took her to Paisley's Mill Street police office.

She was so drunk at the time that officers did not tell her what she was being charged with.

She later admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, demanding entry to the flat and making threats when she appeared in court.

Michael McKeown, defending, said: "She was trying to get back in to recover her property. It is a very regrettable incident."

The lawyer said Holmes had "a considerable history of offending" but had managed to stay out of trouble, with the exception of this offence, since being placed on a Community Payback Order (CPO) for robbing the Clutha.

He also said she was "complying well" with a CPO she was given earlier this year for threatening to kill a schoolboy as she robbed him of a football, adding: "Miss Holmes is doin all that's required of her."

Sheriff McCartney opted not to lock Holmes up, telling the teenager he was giving her a chance to prove she could stay out of trouble.

As he did so, he said: "You put yourself at great risk of going to custody.

"I'm not going to do that today.

"The report for your most recent CPO tells me you are complying very well with that order."

He deferred sentence until May for her to be of good behaviour and said he would have a review hearing for the CPO on the same date.

She was originally remanded in custody over the case and attacked a court officer in the dock as she was being lead away.

Dozens of people - including a sheriff, a prosecutor, a handful of defence lawyers and members of the public - watched as she grabbed the female officer and put her in a headlock while kicking and punching her.

But the matter was not investigated because the victim did not want to make a report to the police.

Earlier this year she was given the CPO for a string of violent attacks and threatening to kill a schoolboy.

She told the youngster she would slit his throat and stab him and his pal as she robbed them of their football in Linwood, Renfrewshire.

She also beat up two women in Paisley in September 2013 - just three months before she and friends Jordan Parry and Darren Melrose raided the Clutha.

She was told to carry out 260 hours' unpaid work for the offences, ordered to attend for alcohol and drug counselling assessment and told she'd be monitored by social workers for the next two years.

Early last year she was also given a CPO for her raid on the Clutha, which saw her stealing booze and charity money from the wrecked pub just weeks after the November 2013 tragedy where 10 people died after a Police Scotland helicopter ploughed through its roof.

And earlier this year she was admonished for headbutting a female police officer in Glasgow.