All forms of life represented to start the week in the local courts.
Dens Park ‘mooner’
A man has been accused of “repeatedly” mooning at Dens Park during Dundee’s Scottish Premiership clash with Celtic in November.
Bo’ness man Jay Jackson denies repeatedly pulling down his trousers to expose his buttocks at the Kilmac Arena during Dundee’s 4-2 loss to Ange Postecoglu’s league leaders.
23-year-old Jackson, of the town’s Ladywell View, will stand trial at Dundee Sheriff Court on July 20.
Jag crash trial
Harley Davidson rider Bhupinder Lalli was found guilty of careless driving after causing a crash which wrecked a Jaguar E-Type in Perthshire. The horrific accident happened near Glenshee.
Abattoir creep
Angus creep Jordan Paton told police he had “no explanation” for the stash of child abuse images found on his mobile phones.
Paton, 29, admitted hoarding images at the home he shared with his family on Kirkton Place, Forfar between April 2014 and July 2020.
At a previous hearing, Prosecutor Gavin Burton revealed how police raided his home after intelligence picked up indecent images being accessed from devices at the address.
He told the court: “The accused’s mother let the police in.
“Officers attended the accused’s place of work at an abattoir in Brechin and he voluntarily returned to the accused.”
Images were found on two phones.
Paton admitted accessing “mainstream pornography” sites but denied searching for child images.
A total of 65 images and four videos were discovered.
The images depicted female children as young as one years old participating in sexual activity.
Paton, of Park Terrace, Kirriemuir, pled guilty to taking or permitting to be taken indecent images of children.
Sheriff George Way sentenced Paton at Dundee Sheriff Court and made him subject to a string of conduct requirements.
He was placed under supervision for three years and put on the Sex Offenders Register for the same period of time.
He was also placed on the Moving Forward, Making Changes programme.
Paedophile jailed again
Fife paedophile William King has been jailed for the second time for abusing youngsters. Sick King was imprisoned for five years in 2016 and has now been given a six-year term for abusing a boy and two girls.
Noisy neighbour
A noisy neighbour who threatened a couple when they asked her to turn down her music has been fined £180.
Laura Robertson appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing and making an offensive remark to her neighbours on December 19, 2019.
The couple had moved into the block in Glengarry Road three weeks earlier.
In that time, they had complained about noise from Robertson’s flat three times to police.
Fiscal depute Rebecca Kynaston said: “That night, they heard constant noise from the accused’s property.
“They knocked on the wall and said to the accused to turn down the noise or they would call the police.”
She said Robertson replied: “I don’t care, I’m going to get you.”
Police attended just after midnight and Robertson spent the night in the cells.
Solicitor Paul Ralph, defending, said his client had since moved to Clunie Terrace.
Sheriff Richard MacFarlane told Robertson: “You have clearly been a cause of upset and distress to your former neighbours.”
Land Rover centre raid
Thief Nathan Mowatt was jailed for nearly two years for breaking into the Land Rover Experience Scotland, near Dunkeld, and stealing a safe containing £16,500. The Glasgow 35-year-old raided the adventure centre in 2018.
Drug-driver
A man who was caught driving through Fife while he was stoned has been banned from the road.
Duncan Draper was not present when his solicitor Jim Laverty pled guilty to driving while under the influence of cannabis.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard officers in a marked car pulled over the 36-year-old during the middle of the afternoon on August 7.
They spotted his Mercedes travelling southeast on the A912 near Falkland.
His blood was tested at West Bell Street Station and provided a reading of 9 mics/2mics of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in his system.
Single father Draper, of Newburgh, was fined £295 and banned for a year by Sheriff George Way.
The full caseload of the Dundee Crime and Courts Team can be found here.
