A Dundee project manager flipped his car on its roof after driving while over the limit.
Grant McCourt, 50, of Glenmarkie Terrace, had to be freed from his Toyota Aygo on September 2 after hitting a parked car on Liff Road.
Witnesses had seen the car driving fast down the busy street shortly before midnight.
Depute fiscal Christine Allen told Dundee Sheriff Court: “The accused was trapped in the car on the driver side.
“There were no other occupants.
“He admitted he had taken alcohol.
“He was freed from his vehicle at 11.25pm and at midnight provided a positive roadside test breath sample.”
He admitted driving with excess alcohol (76mics/ 22).
Defence solicitor Mike Short, in mitigation, said: “He is very sorry about his behaviour.
“He is a project manager, he does not know if he will lose his job.
“He has found the whole experience of coming to court very embarrassing.”
Sheriff John MacRitchie disqualified first offender McCourt from holding a driving licence for 12 months and fined him £600.
Massage rapist
A sex predator who raped a woman after giving her a massage has been jailed for five years. Lee Rigby, 53, from Kinghorn, offered to ease his victim’s aches and pains before attacking her in her Glenrothes home.
Police challenge
A Perth man who challenged officers to a fight during an outburst in a police van has been placed on supervision.
Lawrence Winters admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner in Murray Street and en route to Dundee police office on July 15.
The 51-year-old, of St Catherine’s Square, pled guilty to a charge of acting in an aggressive manner, shouting, swearing, challenging police officers to a fight and uttering threats of violence.
Winters was acquitted of a separate charge of acting threateningly towards his ex-partner at her home in Perth in August.
Sheriff David Mackie told Winters he would place him on a supervision order for 12 months.
Controlling
A controlling boyfriend examined his partner’s body for “evidence of infidelity” and attacked her with a saw during a 10-month campaign of psychological and physical cruelty. Andrew Crawford, from Perth, told his victim he had put a tracking device on her car.
United director speeding accusation
Dundee United’s Sporting Director Tony Asghar is set to go on trial in December after he was charged with speeding in his £65,000 Range Rover.
He has denied speeding on the A919 in Fife on February 2 2021.
He is accused hitting 45mph on a stretch of the St Michael’s to Leuchars Road, which has a 30 mph limit.
Asghar, 53, of Bearsden, denied the offence by letter at Dundee’s JP court.
Snap phone
Farm worker Catalin Mitrica snapped his ex-lover’s mobile phone in half after she began sending “malicious” messages to his wife. The 28-year-old lost his temper when he confronted his former girlfriend in her caravan at the Perthshire soft fruit farm where they both worked.
Hundreds of sick images
A Dunfermline man caught with thousands of child abuse images had been placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
Detectives raided Liam Comrie’s address and recovered a mobile phone and laptop belonging to the 27-year-old.
Experts found 143 accessible images at category A, the most serious type.
There were 347 accessible category B images and 1,346 at category C.
Comrie, of Tronheim Place, admitted taking or making indecent images of children between September 23 last year and February 11 this year.
Sentence was deferred for reports.
Rooftop siege
Dylan Flockhart, 25, from Whitburn, who caused a rooftop siege in Kinghorn, has been jailed for eight months. He had earlier abused bus passengers on a bus from Kirkcaldy before evading police and clambering onto the roof on September 30.
