A bumper round-up to end the week.
Rolling pin
A man chased Cowdenbeath partygoers with a rolling pin and later made violent threats to police officers when he was arrested.
Robbie Forrester, 31, admitted shouting and making threats to people leaving the Broad Street house party as he brandished the kitchen utensil in neighbouring South Street on June 26 last year.
He also pled guilty to shouting and swearing and uttering threats of violence towards police officers at his South Street home less than four weeks later, following an investigation.
Depute fiscal Laura McManus told Dunfermline Sheriff Court Forrester had “chased” a number of people as they left the house party – attended by people aged between 17 and 21 – at around 3.30am.
The depute fiscal said: “The accused was shouting, ‘where’s Deek?’ and telling witnesses to ‘f*** off’ and complaining they were there every weekend.”
Police were contacted and they identified Forrester and arrested him on July 19.
Ms McManus said Forrester understood why officers were there but became “increasingly irate” with them and began a “tirade of abuse,” including “threatening to choke them like he does their wives and shoot them and their families.”
Forrester, who now lives in Melville Street in Lochgelly, continued shouting in this way in front of members of the public before being put in the police vehicle.
The depute fiscal added: “A search of the address took place… and during that search a rolling pin was recovered from under a chair in the living room.”
Sheriff Susan Duff adjourned sentencing for background reports until April 25.
Killer jailed
Dundee killer Jackie Doig was imprisoned for ten years for the culpable homicide of Arbroath man Frankie Melvin. Doig stabbed his victim repeatedly in a row over Valium.
Meat cleaver and axe
A teenager has admitted having an axe and meat cleaver at a Highland Perthshire hotel.
David McCutcheon made threats of violence towards Laura Muirhead, the owner of Achray House in St Fillans, on February 28.
The 18-year-old appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and pled guilty to possessing offensive weapons and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear or alarm.
The axe and cleaver belonged to the hotel, the court heard.
McCutcheon, of Eastwood Avenue, Stranraer, was released on bail and will be sentenced on April 13.
He was ordered, as part of his bail conditions, to stay away from the hotel and Ms Muirhead.
Egg siege
Leah Fleming from Fife laid siege to a Lochgelly house and pelted it with eggs for five hours, according to trial evidence. She will be sentenced at a later date.
Beggar abuse
A Dundee woman living in a homeless shelter has been fined for racially abusing a beggar.
Paula Bowman, 43, admitted shouting and swearing at the woman on Dundee High Street.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Bowman was seen on the main shopping thoroughfare at around 11.50am on June 22.
The woman was sitting on the ground, begging when Bowman approached her.
She started to shout at the woman, telling her to leave the spot as it was someone else’s.
Bowman further told the woman she was “not welcome here” and that she should “go back to her own country”.
Bowman, of St Mary’s Street, Dundee, admitted shouting a racially offensive remark and acting in an aggressive manner.
Sheriff John Rafferty fined her £135 and chided her for her “ridiculous behaviour”.
Brute jailed
Domestic abuse brute Craig Milne from Dundee was jailed. He admitted a campaign of violence against four women, spanning 13 years. He threw a hammer at one, choked another and smacked another in the eye with a banana.
Five times drink-drive limit
A Fife Council ground worker who took a local authority van to a medical appointment while he was seven times over the drink-drive limit was reported to police by a colleague.
Ross Tennant appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to admit drink-driving (155 mics/22) on Leslie Road, Glenrothes on February 21.
Tennant, of Cowley Street in Methil, has a previous analogous conviction.
His solicitor David Bell said: “Mr Tennant seems to have a pretty chronic problem with alcohol.
“He was in the course of his employment as a ground worker for Fife Council.
“He borrowed a works van to go to a medical appointment.”
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane deferred sentencing until April 12 for reports.
Cooking oil charges
A trio from Arbroath appeared in court accused of stealing used cooking oil from businesses across Tayside and north-east Scotland. Vasil Miktov, Georgi Stanchev and Vasil Stanchev made no plea.
The full caseload of the Dundee Crime and Courts Team can be found here.
