Published: Friday, 26th June, 2009 1:10pm

Please, Please Lock Me Up: Says Girvan Criminal

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Girvan criminal asks judge to give him maximum sentence

A REPEAT offender was ordered to serve 1500 days in jail after a judge rejected his plea to send him to prison for as long as possible.

Girvan resident Ryan Ingram wanted to be jailed for the maximum period of almost six and a half years" imprisonment in a bid to provide him with an "incentive for rehabilitation" but Lord Hardie rejected the plea on Monday.

Ingram"s, 27, has been assessed as posing a high to very high risk of reoffending.

He was originally jailed for five years and four months in 2005 after carrying out a knife robbery on W Leith Bakers shop in Girvan and ordered to be kept under supervision for a further five years.

During the raid he robbed a woman employee of £35.

But following his early release he attacked a police officer and was caught carrying an offensive weapon, a wooden post, in April this year.

He was brought back before Lord Hardie, who jailed him for the robbery in 2005, for the judge to consider making a prison return order on the outstanding part of the earlier sentence.

Ingram"s counsel, Susan Duff, told the court that when she previously appeared for him she had said he was keen for the judge to impose the whole of the unexpired part of the sentence.

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