A Perth musician who exposed himself to two women while flexing naked in his living room has been fined £500.
Callum Keys was spotted by a mother and daughter preening in his ground floor flat in Perth.
The pair told a trial the 28-year-old had been looking directly at them as he strutted about in the nude.
Keys was found guilty following trial of a breach of the Sexual Offences Act and returned to court for sentencing.
Sheriff William Gilchrist had told him: “I have no doubt whatsoever that you intentionally exposed yourself to these two women – and you were either doing this for your own sexual gratification or to cause distress.”
Solicitor Jamie Baxter, defending, said: “He should have been more aware of the problems of behaving in this way while his curtains were open, given that he was on the ground floor.
“Since this incident, he has kept his curtains firmly closed.”
Sheriff Gilchrist told Keys: “You appear before me as a first offender and you are at a low risk of reoffending.
“I see no reason for supervision or any other kind of order.”
Keys was not placed on the Sex Offenders Register.
The guitarist claimed he was oblivious to the pair who were watching and videoing him from outside his Friar Street flat on February 24, 2021.
And he said he was shocked when several police officers turned up at his door in the early hours of the morning to arrest him.
Keys told the court he had been admiring himself in a mirror.
“If at any stage it looked like I was giving a performance, it’s because I was giving a performance to myself,” he said. “As someone who is a musician, I am aware of having an audience in front of me.”
Duped by hunters
A Forfar father who sent dozens of messages and graphic sexual pictures to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl has been banned from contact with children among other conditions. Warehouse operator Antony O’Hare spent months grooming the ‘teenager’ online but had no idea he was being duped by a vigilante group.
Nose bite
A Dundee man who left his mother “permanently disfigured” after biting her on the nose after a drunken Boxing Day argument was jailed for two years.
Michael Etchells, 31, will also be on supervision for a year after his release.
Dundee Sheriff Court previously heard he had been arguing with his mother in their Canning Street flat during a festive drinking session.
Fiscal depute Joanne Ritchie said: “He then lunged towards his mother and bit her on the nose.
“He did this by seizing her body.
“The complainer could feel his teeth sink into her skin and she could feel her nose beginning to bleed.
“She had blood all over her face.”
Etchells forced arresting police to press an emergency button to summon further help.
A previous offender, he pled guilty to assault and behaving threateningly.
Murderer trashed cell
Angus murderer Adam Gallagher trashed his prison cell in a bid to get into segregation when he was accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl in Montrose. The lifer had moved to a solo cell during his trial – he was acquitted – but feared other prisoners would think he had been found guilty.
Head stamp
Alan Small from Anstruther was given a 15-month prison sentence – backdated to September 15 when he was remanded – after jurors agreed he injured a man by stamping on his head.
Small has served prison time before and has a directly analogous record of previous convictions.
A jury of ten women and five men heard three days of evidence at Dundee Sheriff Court before returning a majority verdict of guilty.
Small, 35, of Cunzie Street, was convicted of carrying out the attack in Mayfield Court in April 2019.
Knocked down youngster
A driver who knocked a teenage boy off his scooter in Fife said he did not see the youngster because of his dark clothing. Graham Fleming,44, failed to indicate as he turned off Leven’s Main Street and collided with the 14–year-old in September 2021. He admitted driving carelessly.
Locked in bathroom
Fife man Jamie-Lee McLaren, 27, locked his partner in a bathroom then assaulted her after she threatened to post on Facebook about the incident.
When the woman managed to get out of the bathroom and to the garden of the property in Lochore, McLaren pushed her neck as he tried to get an iPad from her.
At Dunfermline Sheriff Court McLaren, of Balbedie Avenue, pled guilty to the assault, which took place on March 17 this year.
The court heard a neighbour was watching from a window and saw the woman was upset and distressed.
Police were called and officers saw red marks on the woman’s neck. She did not require medical attention.
Defence lawyer Ian Beatson said the pair had been drinking alcohol at a party the night before and McLaren became annoyed and closed the bathroom door because they were bickering.
The solicitor said his partner then stated she would post about him being abusive towards her on Facebook.
Sheriff Mark Thorley adjourned sentencing until November 16 for reports.
