A sheriff will decide if Rangers owner Craig Whyte has to pay out almost £90,000 to a roofing company.

One Stop Roofing Supplies Ltd is pursuing Mr Whyte’s Tixway UK Ltd for the money in a civil case.

The roofing firm claims Mr Whyte's company owes £86,127 for supplies bought by another company, Snowcast UK Ltd, owned by the Rangers chairman’s friend Chris Keatings.

Glasgow Sheriff Court heard on Thursday that Mr Whyte allegedly agreed to take responsibility for the payment of goods ordered by Snowcast UK and that an agreement to do so has been breached.

At an earlier hearing, businessman Mr Whyte told the court Mr Keatings, an old friend, introduced him to Robert Jenkins, who runs One Stop Roofing.

He opened an account with the company in case he wanted to order supplies to use on his home, Castle Grant, in Grantown on Spey.

Mr Whyte said he never made any order and no deliveries were received, although it is estimated between 600 and 800 invoices for Snowcast UK orders were sent to his home and office in Glasgow.

The Rangers owner, who took over the Ibrox club last May, claimed he only saw the "first batch" of invoices and had a member of his staff send them on to Mr Keatings. When asked why his father, who worked at the office, never raised any concerns about the invoices being received for goods he had not ordered, he said there was "no degree of urgency" because Snowcast were paying for them.

He said he gave money to Mr Keatings’ company as a loan with a view of making a return on it, but denied ever agreeing to cover the cost of orders made to One Stop Roofing.

It was put to him by QC Alistair Clark that he was contacted by Mr Jenkins regarding a Tixway debt because they had agreed he would be paying for the orders.

But, he denied this and said the only discussions he had with the One Stop Roofing owner were over the money owed by Snowcast UK.

Mr Whyte said: "I was happy to help Mr Jenkins recover any money he was owed from Snowcast. We had a similar objective there."

The court heard Whyte became the director of Tixway after a seven year ban from being a company director. When asked why he was banned he answered he could not recall without any documentation what it was about and he would not want to say in open court and be incorrect.

After hearing evidence and submissions from both parties, Sheriff Nigel Ross will issue a written judgment at a later date.