A Dundee thug jailed for beating up a woman with an ornamental plaque has been caught with an unauthorised mobile phone in Perth Prison.
Jason Chan, 37, had the device to speak to family on his birthday, Perth Sheriff Court heard.
Chan was jailed for 38 months in March for assaulting the woman at her home in Kirkton, leaving her with injuries including cuts to her head and a tooth which was “hanging off and wobbly”.
Fiscal depute Nicole Lewis said Chan was found with the phone at HMP Perth on his birthday – February 18 – in 2020.
Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said: “He had managed to obtain the phone from another prisoner so that he could speak to his family.”
Sheriff Derek Reekie told Chan: “Given the unusual circumstances and given the fact this happened nearly two-and-a-half years ago, I will deal with this with a concurrent sentence.”
Chan was sentenced to 162 days, which will run alongside his current jail term and won’t affect his earliest possible release date in December.
Weapon in killer’s cell
Convicted killer Adam Gallagher, who stabbed a fruit worker to death in Arbroath, has been acquitted of keeping a deadly weapon behind bars. Guards found a makeshift razor in the 35-year-old murderer’s cell at Perth Prison but The Crown could not prove during a trial it had belonged to Gallagher.
Spit hood
Levenmouth man Lee Dunn, who spat blood at police officers, could be jailed.
Dunn, 35, of Tay Street, Methil, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff to admit assaulting a police constable.
Officers were called to a disturbance at Victoria Road in Buckhaven on November 19 and found Dunn outside with injuries to his nose and mouth and blood on his face and T-shirt.
He was told to calm down but he pushed one officer and spat at him, missing.
A spit hood and leg restraints had to be used.
Sheriff James Williamson ordered reports ahead of sentencing on August 11.
Pervy bus driver
A Fife bus driver has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after making creepy comments to youngsters. Paul Orr, formerly a school bus driver, admitted communicating indecently with two girls, making sexual comments about them and to them about other members of the public.
Supervision for abuser
Arbroath paedophile Chris Sloan was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work and placed under supervision and on the Sex Offenders Register for three years at Dundee Sheriff Court.
The 28-year-old of Union Street East previously admitted that between October 23 2018 and September 1 2020 he took or permitted to be taken or made indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children.
He additionally admitted possessing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children on October 27 2020.
The court previously heard how he was caught in a raid after a tip-off by the National Child Abuse Unit.
Using an email address linked to his personal Facebook account, he had uploaded a sick picture of a child.
Hundreds of pictures and videos were found on devices taken from his home.
No ban for fan
St Johnstone fan Lindsay Williamson-Bayley – who admitted being part of a mob outside McDiarmid Park when the team returned to Perth with the Scottish Cup in May 2021 – will be allowed to attend future matches. He was one a crowd of around 30 supporters blamed for attacks on police and stewards and throwing pyrotechnics. He was fined but a football banning order was not imposed.
The full caseload of the Dundee Crime and Courts Team can be found here.
