A footballer who produced a top performance hours after being caught with drugs has been fined £520.
Ali Abboud was found with 2.4g of cocaine worth £200 and £10 of cannabis in his Perth city centre flat on August 8.
The following day the Jeanfield Swifts Amateurs striker scored in the first minute of a pre-season friendly against Ballinluig FC.
He proceeded to net a 29-minute hat-trick in a 14-0 win.
Abboud, 35, admitted two charges of drug possession at an earlier hearing at Perth Sheriff Court.
Troon Avenue murder trial
The Troon Avenue murder trial heard evidence from a young child allegedly raped by accused Andrew Innes.
The jury saw the child’s recorded evidence, which included details about how she believed Jellica Burke, 2, was killed while they played hide and seek.
She said she saw Dundee app designer Innes kill Jellica’s mother, Bennylyn Burke, 25 and gave details of the abuse she said she suffered at his hands.
Forensic police told how Jellica’s and Innes’ DNA was found on the same condom and Mrs Burke’s blood was found on a hammer at 21 Troon Avenue, Dundee, where their bodies were found.
Innes has admitted killing the pair but denies murder due to diminished responsibility.
The trial continues.
Head stamp thugs
Two Glenrothes teenagers have admitted severely injuring a man in a group attack in which they stamped on his head.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, Owen Archer and Aiden McCabe admitted their roles in the assault on September 4 2021.
The attackers, both now 18, assaulted the man on Hendry Road in Kirkcaldy, while acting with others.
Archer, of Thistle Drive, and McCabe, of Skibo Avenue, seized their victim by the clothing and pulled him to the ground.
They punched him and repeatedly kicked him on the head and body and stamped on his head, leaving him severely injured.
Sentencing was deferred on the two first offenders until March 16 for reports and for video footage of the attack to be prepared.
Justice at last
A pensioner could be sent to prison after being convicted of sexually abusing young children almost 60 years ago. Raymond McCandless, 71, from Dundee, carried out serious sexual offences against young girls over a period which spanned nearly 20 years. One of his victims was just four years old when he abused her.
Vile rape remarks
A teenager made rape remarks towards police during a stop and search.
Jamie Stewart, 20, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to admit abusing police and spitting on one officer before telling her she had coronavirus.
Police searched Stewart at Nicol Drive in Burntisland on June 20 in 2021 and became abusive.
She called one officer a dirty prostitute and said: “I’m going to get someone paid to rape you.”
She told another officer: “I hope your wife gets raped.”
As she was placed in the back of a vehicle, she spat at an officer’s bare arm and said she had coronavirus.
Although court papers say Stewart resides in Accrington, Lancashire, her solicitor David Bell said she is living with family in Edinburgh.
Mr Bell said his client was “in a mess” with Valium at the time but is off the drug now.
Sheriff James Williamson ordered reports and deferred sentencing until March 16.
Wine and Valium
A repeat offender smashed a full bottle of wine over a half-naked man’s head in a Buckhaven carpark after a mid-morning argument about stolen Valium. After being arrested for knocking the man out, Thomas Garner, 22, kicked off at police and at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
Tesco scrap
A Perth man who kicked an armed assailant at the city centre Tesco supermarket has been admonished.
At a previous Pert Sheriff Court hearing, Thomas Walker pled guilty to the attack at the South Street store on August 24 last year, his first offence in around 15 years.
Walker, 52, of Parmelia Court, kicked and punched his victim, CCTV footage showed.
Fiscal depute Stuart Hamilton said the two men had become embroiled in a struggle before 10am that day.
Walker kicked the complainer and a peacekeeper had to kick away a “bladed article”.
Solicitor Linda Clark said the bad blood between the men related to a debt.
She accepted because her client had the option to flee, his actions did not meet the requirements for self-defence.
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