A 17-year-old who broke into a Perth golf club and took a ride-on lawnmower for a joyride has been ordered to engage with a rehabilitation programme.
The youth previously pled guilty to stealing the vehicle from Craigie Hill Golf Club after breaking in during the early hours of the morning of March 13.
He hotwired the buggy, smashed it through a bollard and drove it for a mile, before ditching it by a pond.
The club said it had been completely wrecked.
The accused, who was 16 at the time and cannot be named for legal reasons, returned to the dock for sentencing.
Sheriff Euan Duthie placed the teen on a six-month structured deferred sentence and told him to comply with the Right Track programme for young offenders.
His progress will be reviewed at a hearing in March.
Two hurt in crash
An drive admitted causing a two-car smash in rural Perthshire which left two people injured. Steven Sangerman, 37, from Meigle, swerved into the wrong lane as he sped along the A923 Coupar Angus to Dundee road in his Mercedes.
Grabbed phone and fled
A man who pulled out a knife on a Fife bus and robbed a passenger of her phone has been jailed.
Liam Kinch sat beside his victim on the 39C Leslie to Kirkcaldy service and spoke “as if he knew” her before presenting the blade and snatching the device on July 25.
28-year-old Kinch then fled when the vehicle stopped at the town’s Victoria Hospital.
Procurator fiscal depute Ronnie Hay told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court Kinch boarded with another person in Glenrothes and engaged the victim in conversation in a manner “as if he knew” her.
She heard one male stating she was due them £100,000.
The fiscal depute said Kinch was acting aggressively towards his victim – who could not move from her seat because of where he had sat – and pulled a knife from his pocket, presenting it and demanding she hand over her phone.
He grabbed it and there was a struggle before he fled
Officers went to a property in Glenrothes’ Delgatie Court the next morning for an unrelated matter and were made aware Kinch was a suspect in the robbery and saw the phone and arrested him.
Sheriff Robert More jailed him for 16 months.
Defence lawyer Chris Sneddon said his client “deeply regrets” his actions.
Taxi attack
A Leven man used a a taxi driver’s own seatbelt to trap her, before sexually assaulting her. Graham Hay pinned the female driver to her seat by pulling on her belt and then leaned over from the back seat to stick his hand up her skirt. He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register and will be sentenced next month.
Drowsy knifeman
A drunk man caught with a knife at a Perth petrol station has been ordered to wear an electronic tag.
Jordan Walker had a Stanley knife in a trouser pocket when he was stopped and searched by police at a BP Garage on Dunkeld Road.
Perth Sheriff Court heard officers were responding to reports of an intoxicated male at the filling station forecourt in an area of the city known as the Triangle.
Walker, 25, was “vomiting and drowsy” when he spoke to officers, said fiscal depute Elizabeth Hodgson.
He was taken by ambulance to Perth Royal Infirmary.
Walker, of Nimmo Avenue, admitted having a bladed item in a public place on July 14 2020.
He was placed on a Restriction of Liberty Order for 75 days, meaning he must stay in his home between 7pm and 7am.
Wife beater dodges jail
A mature student who left his wife from Dundee scarred during a series of beatings begged to be kept out of prison so he would not be thrown off his university course. Jason Glover, 41, admitted attacking his former partner on numerous occasions and received a range of non-custodial punishments.
Shared drugs with pal
Fife drug dealer Barry Shields could be jailed after being caught supplying his friend with heroin.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, Shields, 39, of Brae Court in Glenrothes, admitted being concerned in the supply of the drug.
Fiscal depute Mat Piskorz said police attended at his former Keir Hardie Wynd home on November 20 2020 and found 13.8 grammes of heroin, valued by officers at £700.
Shields solicitor Iain McCafferty said he had bought just under half an ounce for £180 and was supplying to a friend on a non-commercial basis.
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith ordered reports deferred sentence.
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