A teenager who was one of three originally charged with 70 graffiti offences is now “with a certain irony” working for a firm of decorators as a painter’s mate, his lawyer told Dundee Sheriff Court on Thursday.
Dylan Stewart (19), of Tweed Crescent, was appearing after admitting breaching an ASBO designed to keep him away from the other two members of the group by being in the company of one of them in Broughty Ferry Road on March 31 last year.
In the event, Stewart had admitted eight graffiti charges and was sentenced to community service, which his lawyer Ross Bennett told the court he had completed early, “having got really stuck in about it.”
Stewart has been in no further trouble and no longer associates with the other two youths, he said.
Regarding the breach of the ASBO, the two boys had merely been in each other’s company and were not doing anything “clandestine,” he added.
Sheriff Elizabeth Munro said she was prepared to give Stewart credit for the efforts he had made and admonished him.
