A crack cocaine addict smashed a hole in a locked supermarket door because he wanted a telly at 1.50am.
After using the trolley as a battering ram Neil Proctor, 44, was challenged by shocked nightshift staff but told them “the door was open”.
Fiscal depute Lauren Pennycook told the Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court: “He took a trolley that was nearby and constantly struck it on the glass-panelled door.
“He did this until the lower glass panel collapsed and he entered the locus through the hole he had created.
“He then began to move in the aisles.
“When staff members in the locus asked him what he was doing he said ‘I want a telly’.
“When asked how he had managed to gain entry, he replied ‘doors were open’.”
Solicitor Katie Stewart, defending, said: “He doesn’t remember much of the offence.
“At this time of his life he was very much misusing drugs.”
Proctor, of no fixed abode, admitted breaking into the Asda store on Kirkcaldy’s Carberry Road with intent to steal on February 6 2021.
Jailing him for two months, Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith remarked: “It’s not the smartest crime by Mr Proctor”.
‘Collision with the pavement’
A domestic abuser breached a non-harassment order banning him from contacting his former partner when he took a drunken tumble outside her home. Kevin Spokes, 36, had been visiting his ex-partner’s neighbour for new year drinks when he “had a collision with the pavement” outside. The resultant conversation with his ex was a breach of his conditions.
‘Futile’ headbutt
An Arbroath man handcuffed by police on Hallowe’en has been fined after making a “futile” attempt at headbutting the officer.
Dennis Matthews was among a group of people police found at a property in Sheriff Stein Place in Arbroath, after receiving a call to a disturbance there at 1.50am on October 31 2021.
Due to the ongoing disturbance, officers handcuffed everyone, including 39-year-old Matthews.
In response, Matthews, of Lamley Terrace, aimed a headbutt at PC Scott Roberts – missing completely.
His solicitor Nick Whelan said: “He has little recollection of the events – he was intoxicated.
“It was a fairly futile attempt.”
Having admitted the assault, Matthews was fined £320 by Sheriff Krista Johnston at Forfar Sheriff Court.
Rapist jailed
A former doorman from Dunfermline who attacked and raped women in Fife has been jailed for 15 years. Stephen Whyte spent 14 years preying on his victims, subjecting them to horrendous abuse in a series of crimes.
Court attack
A Glenrothes man headbutted a court police officer after refusing to enter the dock.
Conrad Diraham, 49, left the constable with a bleeding lip at Dunfermline Sheriff Court on December 23 last year.
He was warned by a sheriff at the same building this week he could be sent to prison.
Procurator fiscal depute Azrah Yousaf said Diraham was in court two weeks ago for a Justice of the Peace matter but refused to enter the dock when his case was called.
Ms Yousaf said he approached the well of court – where lawyers sit – and was told he was not allowed to enter.
Diraham became argumentative and refused to confirm his name and his unruly behaviour continued, despite being warned by police.
He was ushered out by two court officers.
The fiscal said: “He did eventually go to the front door and without warning lunged and headbutted (a constable) to the face, causing his top lip to start bleeding.
“Other officers took hold of him and he struggled and in the course of this (another constable) had bruising to his right arm”.
Diraham, of Broom Road in Glenrothes, pled guilty to police assault and resisting arrest.
He admitted another charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice by refusing to enter the dock or confirm his name, acting aggressively and repeatedly interrupting court staff.
Sheriff James MacDonald told Diraham: “These offences are significant, not least because of being committed in the court building.”
He adjourned sentencing until February 1 for reports and Diraham was released on bail, although he was warned he could be jailed.
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