An Angus man was not in court to hear his guilty pleas accepted as he was seeking emergency vet treatment for his puppy instead.
Jack Milne’s solicitor Lee Qumsieh appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to tender guilty pleas on the 22-year-old’s behalf.
Milne admitted that on September 10, he assaulted a woman at Asda in Kirkcaldy.
He also admitted acting abusively when police arrived by shouting, swearing and making treats of violence towards officers.
Mr Qumsieh explained his client could not attend court as he was seeking emergency treatment for his 10-week-old puppy.
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith ordered a social work report and deferred sentencing.
First offender Milne, of Park Terrace in Kirriemuir, will return to court on February 7.
Ice cream parlour pervert
Fife ice cream shop owner Sean McGowan, who engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl after grooming her for months, has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register and told to carry out unpaid work. The 38-year-old’s Inverkeithing business, Catered With Love, closed down after protests when his actions came to light.
Urine bottle threat
A man waiting to have ten stitches to close a head wound threatened to hurl a bottle of his own urine over Fife police.
Edward Biggam was taken by police to Hayfield Road in Kirkcaldy for treatment to his bleeding head on June 2 after an “altercation”.
While waiting, he began threatening police.
When an officer told him to hold onto a bottle paramedics had given him to urinate in, he threatened to throw the bottle and its contents over police.
Biggam, 26, shouted and swore, challenged police to a fight and threatened to spit in their faces.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, he admitted he acted in a threatening or abusive manner.
Defence solicitor Peter Winning said his client, of Livingstone Drive in Burntisland, was completely covered in blood at the time.
“His behaviour was unacceptable,” he said. “He accepts that.”
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith deferred sentence and ordered reports.
The sheriff said: “I routinely say that I’m absolutely flabbergasted at the manner in which people generally behave towards the police.
“Mr Biggam does have a limited record. He is, however, and adult.
“No one should be going to their work and be threatened with having a bottle of urine thrown over them.”
Taxi assault
A Dunfermline man attacked and racially abused a taxi driver after he told him to sit in the back seat and refused to take him to Alloa. Mark Marshall, 20, had earlier shouted abuse at two teenage girls near an Asda store in the city’s St Leonards Street.
‘How would you feel?’
A Kirkcaldy dad was asked by a sheriff how he would feel if hateful comments he made to police were directed at him.
Dylan Stewart was taken into the town’s police station at around 11pm on December 21 in connection with matters no longer before court.
He began shouting and swearing at police.
The 21-year-old told officers: “I hope your son dies,” “I hope your family dies” and “I hope your wife dies.”
He appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and admitted acting in an abusive manner.
Sheriff Alison McKay said: “You’re in a relationship, you have a child.
“Your behaviour towards police officers was absolutely horrible.
“How would you feel if I sat here and said I hope your baby dies?”
Stewart, of Overton Road, was also sentenced for acting threateningly towards his partner six weeks earlier.
He refused to leave her home on November 10 and police could hear him shouting when the woman called 999.
The sheriff placed Stewart on a restriction of liberty order, keeping him indoors between 8pm and 8am for four months.
Handbag robbery charge
A man has appeared in court accused of assaulting an 80-year-old woman and robbing her of her handbag in a Perthshire town. Bryce McCardle was arrested following the alleged incident in Blairgowrie’s George Street on Tuesday afternoon.
Scarring charge
A 21-year-old has appeared in court accused of attacking a man outside a Perthshire hotel, leaving him scarred for life.
Shane Low denied the assault in Alyth’s Commercial Street on July 31 2021.
It is alleged Low, of Springbank Road, got into a fight with his alleged victim outside the Alyth Hotel.
He is accused of struggling with him on the ground before repeatedly striking him on the head and body with a “sharp implement” to his serious injury and permanent disfigurement.
Low will stand trial on May 29.
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