A Tayside lodger who carried out a sex attack on his sleeping landlady has been banned from going out at night for the next 15 weeks.
Scott Thoms was put on a 7pm to 6am curfew and was placed on the sex offenders register and under supervision for nine months on Wednesday.
Perth Sheriff Court heard how his victim woke up in the middle of the night to find Thoms groping her.
She struggled initially to work out who it was in the dark, but Thoms said: “It’s Scott”. He then apologised for what he was doing.
Sheriff Gillian Wade told him: “You require to be dealt with on the basis that this is a sexual offence. I have an inclination this was a situational incident, rather than one that was planned or that you are likely to repeat.
“That doesn’t take away from the seriousness of it.”
She told Thoms he would benefit from social workers giving him advice on “sexual boundaries” with women.
Thoms, 50, of Coldstream Avenue, Perth, admitted sexually assaulting a woman while she was drunk and sleeping in Blairgowrie on December 8.
Solicitor Pauline Cullerton, defending, said: “At the time of the offence he had recently separated from his wife and was turning to alcohol.”
