A firefighter has been banned from the road after he admitted hurtling down the M90 at 114mph.
Jonathan Mooty, from Huntly, was caught speeding in his Vauxhall Insignia at Fruix, near Kinross, on May 27.
The 34-year-old, of Old Road, did not attend at Perth Sheriff Court when his case called but solicitor Paul Ralph tendered a guilty plea on his behalf.
“With his work in the fire service, he knows better than most the consequences of this kind of action,” he said.
“He appreciates he will be disqualified and that that will make travelling to work more difficult.
“But he accepts that he has brought this on himself.”
Sheriff Craig McSherry fined Mooty £180 and disqualified him from driving for four months.
Breakfast barney
Convicted child killer Jordan McCready attacked a Perth Prison guard after he refused to serve him his breakfast cereal. The lifer threw a carton of milk during an early morning strop in his cell. It is his second conviction for assaulting a member of prison staff this year.
Punched out at paramedic
A Dundee mum swung a punch towards a paramedic helping her on a verge near a Perthshire hotel.
Lori Fraser was being tended while lying on a grassy verge in the rain when she swung for the paramedic.
The 36-year-old carer had been staying at Murrayshall with a friend but the pair had split after an argument.
Hotel staff flagged down the ambulance at around 1am to help intoxicated Fraser, who was on the main access road into the hotel.
Fraser appeared at Perth Sheriff Court to admit assaulting, obstructing and hindering the Scottish Ambulance Service employee on August 22 last year.
When he was helping her, she repeatedly said: “Get your f***ing hands off me.”
She managed to rise from her seated position and swung a punch towards the paramedic’s face but he anticipated the blow and dodged it.
The court heard Fraser had an analogous conviction involving an emergency service worker from around 16 years ago.
Her solicitor James Laverty said the conviction would have a “fairly cataclysmic” effect on Fraser and her career.
Mr Laverty explained that the incident came at the end of a “tsunami” of events which had impacted his client’s mental health.
He said: “She has very little, if any, recollection and awoke the next day at Dundee police station.
“She fully accepts that the staff were on this occasion only trying to help her.”
Sheriff John MacRitchie deferred sentencing for a year for Fraser, of Gorrie Terrace in Dundee, to be of good behaviour.
Speed-demon barber
A Dundee barber was clocked roaring down the M90 at 131mph. Fecri Konu, 35, was released on bail when Perth Sheriff Court heard his business will collapse if he is remanded.
In a spin
A drink-driver bashed a car on a Kinross-shire road, sending it into a spin.
Aaron Bratton, 41, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted being nearly twice the legal limit on the B996 Kinross to Gairneybank road on September 8.
Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr said: “A car driving along the route attempted to overtake a vehicle in front.
“At this point, the accused appeared behind the overtaking vehicle.
“There was a collision which caused the vehicle to spin round 180 degrees before coming to a stop.”
Bratton admitted driving with excess alcohol (39mics/ 22).
Solicitor Ross Donnelly said: “Mr Bratton had consumed some amount of alcohol the evening before.
“He should have been aware of the residual effect of alcohol on his ability to drive.”
Mr Donnelly said his client had embarked on his own rehabilitation scheme.
Bratton, of Oakfield Street, Perth, was fined £700 and banned from driving for a year.
Ninewells fireraiser
A habitual criminal who routinely targets Ninewells hospital forced an evacuation after starting a fire in the toilets there. Sam Burns Hall, 49, has been locked up after causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to the hospital during the Covid-19 crisis.
