A Dundonian has been locked up after throwing stones through a resident’s window and spitting on a city shopkeeper.
Ryan Scott appeared at the city’s sheriff court after his early-morning attack on the property in Turnberry Avenue on November 8 last year.
The court heard Scott, 20, of Lauderdale Avenue, was also found in possession of a knife at Wentworth Avenue and Turnberry Avenue.
After drinking with friends, he said: “I’m going to get put to jail for attempted murder.”
He returned to the house in Turnberry Avenue and residents could see him holding the blade.
Continuing to throw stones at the window, one finally smashed through the glass.
He also admitting spitting on the shoulder of a shopkeeper at the Premier Store on Turnberry Avenue on August 11 in 2020.
Sheriff John Rafferty jailed him for six months for last year’s offending and added another month for spitting on the shopkeeper.
Drug rapist
A predatory Dundee paedophile plied a 15-year-old schoolgirl with drink and drugs before raping her while she was unconscious. Lee McPherson, 43, coerced the teenager to meet him to give her street Valium and raped her repeatedly in locations across the city.
‘Lucky you woke when you did’
A Cowdenbeath woman was told “you’re lucky you woke up when you did” when she found her ex-partner towering over her bed.
Barry Hatton, 40, entered the woman’s home uninvited and assaulted her.
He broke down the bathroom door as she attempted to hide and later pinned her to the bed.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard Hatton’s attacks came after he discovered the woman was in a new relationship.
Fiscal depute Katie Cunningham told the court the pair had split up a number of years ago but had been “on and off” in the intervening period.
She said Hatton made repeated visits to the house in the lead-up to the terrifying culmination, making threats.
Ms Cunningham said: “At 6.30am the following morning the complainer awoke to find the accused standing in her bedroom.
“The accused said she was lucky she woke up when she did.”
After the struggle, she freed herself and was able to dial 999.
Hatton, of Balderran Drive, Cowdenbeath, admitted assault and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner between May 22 and 23 last year.
He was given 75 hours of unpaid work.
Employee-from-hell
Employee-from-hell Ronald McLennan, who threatened his boss in Forfar with a loaded shotgun and tortured him with a dog chain has been jailed for 40 months. Dundee High Court had earlier heard evidence from McLennan’s victim about waterboarding, blackmail and death threats.
Halloween horror sentencing delay
Court proceedings against a Perth teenager who stabbed a child with a pair of scissors have been delayed following “discrepancies” in a social work report.
Reece Duncan was due to be sentenced in Perth after he admitted a gruesome attack on a 15-year-old at Moncrieffe Island on Halloween 2020.
On the same evening, Duncan, who was 16 at the time, attacked two other children and threatened others while claiming he was armed with a knife.
Some of Duncan’s victims and their families attended at court for sentencing.
But the case was delayed until later this month, so solicitors can address what Sheriff Andrew Mackie described as “discrepancies” in a background report prepared on Duncan’s behalf.
Duncan, now 18, was told to return to court for sentencing on October 19.
Multiple offences
An “appalling” drink driver with multiple road traffic convictions and bans has been jailed. Christopher Gourdie‘s latest offence was drink-driving in Auchtermuchty.
