A Fife hairdresser who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in his Methil salon has been placed on supervision.
Nuran Serkizyan was found guilty of the attack on March 21 this year at after a trial before Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
The 50-year-old was found to have touched and rubbed his victim on the shoulders and above her breasts.
Sheriff McFarlane also ruled that Serkizyan, of Wellesley Road, also attempted to kiss the woman at NS Hair Salon and then did kiss her, as well as placing his hand down her back.
The Turkish national returned to court this week to be sentenced.
He was placed under supervision for a year by Sheriff McFarlane.
Serkizyan was also placed on the sex offenders register for the same period of time.
Scan and Go
A Perth shoplifter took a local supermarket’s Scan and Go service a bit too literally.
Father-of-six Edward Townsley went into Tesco in the city’s Edinburgh Road, and walked out with about £150 of stolen groceries.
Perth Sheriff Court heard that staff were alerted when a security alarm went off, just after 6.30pm on January 8, 2021
Fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson said: “Tesco staff reviewed CCTV and saw the accused taking various products.”
She said none of the items were recovered.
Solicitor Pauline Cullerton, defending, said Townsley, 30, had been on medication at the time.
“He was using the Scan and Go service and he genuinely forgot to pay.”
Townsley was ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work as part of a community payback order.
Football fan was in ‘high spirits’
A football fan caused a drunken disturbance on a train home to Perth after watching Scotland’s brutal 4-0 defeat against Belgium.
Mark Netherington shouted “I’m Scottish and I can sing what I want,” when he was told to quieten down by a train guard.
The 53-year-old was arrested by British Transport Police when he arrived at the Fair City station.
He appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive way, likely to cause fear or alarm, on the Perth-Glasgow service on September 9, 2019.
His solicitor said he had been in “high spirits” after the match.
Sheriff Donald Ferguson said: “I think the issue here is the spirits he had consumed, rather than the spirits he was in.”
One-punch kill threat
A patient who rampaged through a Perthshire medical centre and told a nurse he could kill her with one punch has been admonished.
George Kennedy ranted he would murder “several people” during a disturbance at Crieff Medical Centre.
Terrified staff locked themselves in an office to escape the 27-year-old.
He kicked a hole in a fire door while a staff member tried to hold it closed from the other side.
Kennedy, of McNee Place, Crieff, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court earlier this month and admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at the clinic’s King’s Centre in January 2020.
He did not return to court for sentencing on Thursday.
Sheriff Gillian Wade admonished Kennedy, to allow him to seek further mental health treatment.
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