TWO men who were locked up over an incident at a car wash in Ayr have been allowed back on to the streets after pleading guilty to their parts in the row.

Jack Neasham, 26, and 33-year-old Craig Boyle pleaded guilty at the town’s sheriff court to a charge of making violent threats at the Ultra Klean 4 Car Wash on Peebles Street last month.

The pair admitted causing fear and alarm by shouting and swearing and making the threats in the course of the incident on May 12.

Both men had been remanded in custody after a previous appearance in court – at which they'd denied a more serious charge of assaulting a man while behaving in the manner described, and of doing so while brandishing a knife.

But Neasham and Boyle were released on bail after admitting the amended charge, with the assault and knife references removed from the complaint.

Neasham also admitted lunging towards another man during the incident, while not guilty pleas to two further charges on the complaint were accepted by prosecutors.

Boyle was placed on a community payback order with 18 months of supervision and 150 hours unpaid work.

Sentencing was deferred for Neasham until September, with Boyle ordered to return to court on the same date for a review.

The Advertiser previously reported on a separate case in which Neasham, Boyle and a third accused admitted charges of assault and threatening behaviour in a separate incident at the same car wash.

That incident happened on January 21 when Neasham challenged a witness about “some allegations” on January 21, before punching the man.

On January 26, Neasham and Boyle went to the car wash and were heard stating they were “going to f*****g kill” and “smash their house up”.

They left and returned, with all three again shouting and swearing and Neasham stating “I know where you stay, I’m going to f***ing kill you”.

Neasham’s solicitor Peter Lockhart said: “Tensions were running high. He felt the allegations were serious but not being taken seriously.

“Five days later the parties attended the car wash staffed by a number of males of Eastern European extraction. There was at least seven or eight, and things became heated."

In March Neasham, of Elder House in Prestwick was put on a community payback order for the January incident, with 12 months of supervision, and told to do 200 hours of unpaid work.

At the same March hearing, sentence on Boyle, of George Street in Ayr, was deferred for good behaviour.