A Fife man has been banned from owning dogs after his pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross bit a 10-year-old boy.
Benjamin Fielder, 24, of Kincairne Street, Kincardine, admitted his dog was dangerously out of control during the incident at an address in Kincardine on April 17 last year.
Court papers state the dog jumped onto and knocked over the boy before biting him to the body.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard the dog has already been destroyed.
Sheriff Craig McSherry banned Fielder from owning dogs for two years and made a compensation order for £150.
Revenge porn
Tattoo artist Alex Evans, who posted revenge porn of a model who dumped him, has been jailed for 11 months. He used his victim’s naked picture as his own social media profile so dozens of his contacts could see it after the OnlyFans worker ended their brief relationship.
Jailed
Stacey Phinn, 35, who was caught with more than £4,000 worth of drugs secreted in a Kinder Egg, hidden in her underwear was jailed for 15 months.
Phinn, from Dundee, admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine in the city’s Rosefield Street on September 3 2020.
She also admitted, in a separate incident, attacking her brother by punching and kicking him and repeatedly striking him on the head and body with a crowbar in Dundee, to his injury, on April 28 2021.
Solicitor Ian Houston, in mitigation said: “She has made some effort with her addiction.”
Abusive seaman
Royal Navy submariner Gary Booth spat in his wife’s face and threatened to disclose intimate images of her during months of abuse in Fife. The 37-year-old, now of Cumbria was given supervision and non-harassment orders and unpaid work.
Cable cut claim
An arrest warrant has been issued for a 40-year-old man accused of maliciously cutting a phoneline at his home in Perth.
Garry White faces allegations he used pliers, or a similar item, to damage a BT Open Connect Cable at the city’s North Port.
Prosecutors claim White did this on two occasions between October 12 and 28 last year.
White is further accused of assaulting a man at the same address on October 29.
It is alleged he seized Derek Gibson by the hair, causing him to fall down a set of stairs, and then kicked him on the body.
White did not attend Perth Sheriff Court when his case called.
Solicitor Pauline Cullerton said she had no explanation for her client’s non-appearance.
A warrant for White’s arrest was issued by Sheriff Francis Gill.
McDonald’s savagery
Teenager Layton Chaplin battered a man unconscious and then stamped on his head in Dundee after trying to be first of the 2021 to get into a city centre McDonald’s restaurant. The then-15-year-old was joined the savage assault by co-accused Jay Ciebrant and then went on to commit other violent crimes in the city.
Covid impact on case
Welder Kevin Spokes from Dundee was placed under supervision for two years for assaulting his girlfriend the day after her father’s funeral.
Dundee Sheriff Court previously heard how Spokes sparked a row with his long-term partner after accidentally smashing a vase of flowers at her home in the city’s Inveresk Gardens.
He dragged her across the room and rained down punches, before throwing a chair at her and another woman.
The court heard how “Karma intervened” as Spokes tried to make his escape from police by bicycle, falling off and splitting his head on the road.
The 35-year-old, who has a history of domestic violence, was taken to hospital and needed six stitches.
He admitted two assaults.
Sheriff Gregor Murray said: “Your case has been one of the many severely impacted by the Covid pandemic.
“You have essentially spent the equivalent of 20 months in custody.
“(This matter) is well within the range of a custodial sentence the court could impose, and social work continue to have concerns you might reoffend.
“There is evidence you are looking for work and you have commitments to your child you want to maintain.
“I will assign a review hearing for 3 months’ time.”
Police pursuit trial
A teenager has told a trial in Fife he was chased by a police squad car and knocked from his bike when it “rammed” him on a cycle path in Glenrothes. The youngster was giving evidence in the dangerous driving trial at Kirkcaldy of PC Kayleigh Simpson.
Dealer jailed
A Methil drug dealer has been locked up for more than a year and a half.
25-year-old cocaine dealer Alexander Toon previously admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class A drug from his home in the town’s High Street.
Officers snared Toon on April 18 last year and he pled guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane jailed him for 20 months.
The full caseload of the Dundee Crime and Courts Team can be found here.
