A child abuser caught with nearly £2,000 worth of drugs at HMP Castle Huntly has been placed on supervision.
Mark Frizzell collected his hidden stash of heroin and Class C drug gabapentin – known as “gabbies” – while he was on home leave.
Perth Sheriff Court heard the 50-year-old returned to Port Glasgow but was left “devastated” after he was shunned by his family.
Frizzell remembered he had stashed away drugs before he was jailed in 2018.
He picked them up from his secret hiding spot and took them back to prison, where he intended to take them on his own.
Fiscal depute Andrew Harding said behind bars, the drugs were worth just over £1,800.
Frizzell’s solicitor stressed his client had no intention of sharing or supplying them.
He admitted possession of the substances on June , last year and was placed on supervision for 18 months.
The court had previously heard how he had inflicted years of physical and mental abuse on two terrified young sisters.
He nearly killed one of them by strangling her in a fit of rage.
His campaign of abuse included taking the children to drug dens, where they had to watch as he and his friends smoked heroin.
Spreading fear
Louise Dixon from Dundee scared supermarket staff by brandishing a jar of Nutella at them. The 38-year-old admitted threatening staff at Lidl on Dura Street after they asked her to leave.
Beast rant
A Methil woman screamed “beast” at a neighbour during a drunken rant.
Courtney Turner had earlier been removed from the property in Keir Hardie Wynd due to being aggressive.
The 25-year-old stood in the garden ranting, referring to a witness as a “beast”.
Her solicitor said she had been drinking at the time but appreciated she was in the wrong.
Turner, of Keir Hardie Wynd, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner on July 21.
Sentence was deferred for good behaviour.
Cocaine-fuelled chase
A cocaine-fuelled driver who ended a 45-minute police chase by careering his truck into a Fife garden has been jailed. Stuart Nowrie was chased in a flatbed truck by police from Blairhall to Cardenden.
Triple attack
Nigel Maynard pled guilty at Forfar Sheriff Court to three attacks on his former partner.
Maynard, of William Street, Forfar, had admitted that on an occasion in 2017, he grabbed the woman by the arms and pushed her to the ground at a property in Lilybank Crescent.
The 56-year-old also admitted that in July 2019, he kicked her on the body while at Kellas Road.
He pushed the woman to the ground again at his home on December 3 2021.
He appeared at a sentencing hearing on Thursday where Sheriff Derek Reekie fined him £640, to be paid in 28 days.
The sheriff chose not to impose a non-harassment order.
Life for unrepentant knifeman
A violent, high risk offender who threatened to “dedicate my life to murder” and warned he would take life has been given a life sentence. Mark Law, 44, threw a knife towards two women working at a mental health complex in Dundee while he was under the influence of crack cocaine. He had taken the blade to the centre to kill people, he admitted.
Hostel trouble
George Bundy has been placed on curfew for two months for raging at a homeless hostel worker at Greyfriars House in Perth.
The city’s sheriff court heard the 37-year-old went to the Princes Street hostel because he needed a place to stay after a drunken row with his girlfriend.
Fiscal depute Andrew Harding said: “He was under the influence of alcohol when he was brought to the hostel by police.
“An employee there instructed him to come back in two hours when a room would be available.”
Bundy went away but returned to the hatch at the front of the building to demand entry.
He lost his temper and called the employee a “fat bitch.”
Bundy, of Catmoor Avenue, Scone, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive way, likely to cause fear or alarm, on October 11.
Bundy was also placed under supervision for two years.
Soup flinger
Two prison officers were lucky to escape unscathed when violent Kinross-shire offender Jamie Miller threw hot soup at them in Perth Prison. The 32-year-old became angry when he was told he could add no more names to his prison-issued mobile phone.
Spat at police
Levi Stewart, 19, from Kelty’s Blair Street, has admitted spitting at a police officer and repeatedly made abusive remarks towards them in street on October 22 this year.
He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to plead guilty to one charge of assault and another charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
Sheriff David Hall deferred sentence until December 7 for the production of background reports.
