A Perth man has admitted an assault in a city centre Tesco supermarket.
Thomas Walker pled guilty to the attack at the South Street store on August 24, last year.
Walker, 52, kicked and punched his victim, CCTV footage showed.
Perth Sheriff Gillian Wade told him: “Because this is quite a significant offence, I want to know what sentencing options are available to the court.”
Walker, of Parmelia Court, will return to court for sentencing on December 23.
Crimewave
Ryan Robertson, 22, from Dundee has been jailed for a one-man crimewave lasting a year across Tayside. He stole vehicles, a caravan and a Rolex as well as using stolen credit cards and admitted 19 charges in total.
Nose bite threat
A Fife man threatened to “bite off” a teenager’s nose after drinking too much at a Cupar festival.
Kenneth Donald, 36, had been at an event in the town on September 18 last year – understood to be the town’s Celebration and Commemoration Weekend – and had taken a considerable amount of alcohol.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told police at Cupar station heard shouting outside their office and saw the accused climbing a wall, shouting and swearing in the direction of a 15-year-old boy.
Depute fiscal Emma Farmer said: “The accused shout ‘I’ll bite your f***ing nose off’.”
Police approached and he directed a volley of abuse at them before being restrained.
Ms Farmer said: “In the course of being restrained he attempted to bite both officers but did not.
“His response to caution and charge was ‘I will bite your f***ing noses off’.”
Defence solicitor Kevin Hampton, said: “He has no recollection and the first thing he remembers is waking up in a police cell the next day.”
Sheriff George Way discovered Donald had only recently paid a fine, of £1,500 following a similar incident in 2020 and called for reports, deferring sentence until January 10.
Tax dodger
Perth construction boss Thomas Mullen faces jail for a £200,000 tax scam. HMRC investigators discovered the director of Tay Roofing and Building Ltd had been dodging nearly hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of tax payments over a near-five year period. Perth Sheriff Court heard Mullen had made more than £1 million but paid no tax over a five-year period.
Ear bite
23-year-old Keiran Neilson, who repeatedly struck a peacemaker on the head with a glass bottle and bit him on the ear has been jailed.
He pled guilty to assaulting the man to his injury on January 22 this year at a property in Castle Avenue, Crosshill when he appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court via video link from Barlinnie Prison.
Procurator fiscal depute Douglas Thomson told the court there had been an argument and the victim had tried to defuse the situation but it escalated and he was hit with the bottle.
Nelson then bit his victim on the ear.
Nelson also admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at Dunfermline police station and Kirkcaldy’s Victoria Hospital on March 16 this year.
He repeatedly struck his head against a cell wall, shouted and swore and challenged police to fight and struggled violently with them.
He shouted at members of the public and staff at A&E.
Defence lawyer Chris Sneddon said Nelson wanted to apologise for his behaviour and his client , who has previous convictions, had a very difficult childhood and drug and alcohol issues.
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane sentenced him to 16 months in prison.
Dog attack
Fife dog owner Craig Dingwall has been ordered to pay compensation after his pet latched onto a Labrador with a “vice-like grip” and left it with puncture wounds. The large Japanese Akita and Neapolitan Mastiff, Dozer, was off lead when it pinned 11-year-old Lab Rusty to the ground during the attack in Oakley.
Drowsy driver
A Dundee man was spotted behind the wheel while clearly under the influence of drugs.
Nicholas McKenzie, a prisoner at Perth, admitted driving without insurance, a licence, an MOT and while under the influence of drink or drugs in October last year.
McKenzie, 40, had been speaking with staff at the homeless shelter on Brewery Lane, before he got in the front seat of a car and drove off.
Concerned about how he had presented, the staff phoned police.
Officers found McKenzie behind the wheel in the driver’s seat.
He was slurring his words and appeared drowsy.
Tests were carried out which confirmed he was under the influence.
Sheriff George Way sentence McKenzie to 60 days in prison for the first charge and admonished him for lack of licence, MOT and insurance.
Police threat
A Dundee clubber threatened to attack police “after they were off-duty” in a drunken tirade outside a popular nightclub. Connor Ross, 27, had been thrown out by bouncers of Underground on South Tay Street when police on patrol stepped in to help.
Hurled over handlebars
An man who sped through an Arbroath street on an unregistered motorbike and hurled himself over the handlebars has admitted he drove dangerously.
24-year-old Craig Lindsay was injured after the crash in Moonlight Gardens on February 8.
He was not wearing a helmet at the time.
Lindsay, of Arbroath’s Priory Crescent, was not present at Forfar Sheriff Court when he pled guilty by letter.
Sheriff Krista Johnston deferred sentencing until December 15.
