A Dundee drug dealer will be sentenced next month after admitting being concerned in the supply of heroin and cocaine.
Mark Shannon used a flat in Lorne Street and a unit at Fairmuir Street to run his illicit operation.
Between October 8 2020 and March 1 2021, he was concerned in the supply of cocaine.
On the final day of that spell, the 27-year-old was also supplying heroin.
Shannon, of Strathmartine Road, will return to Dundee Sheriff Court on March 20 after reports have been prepared.
Police impersonator
A Dunfermline man’s old school friends turned to him for help on a night out after he had previously pretended to them he was a police officer. They told Nathan Taylor someone had been “spiked” at a club, after he had previously enlisted their help “training” a police dog on the high street. He had also made the same claim to a real officer’s in the city’s Primark store. Sentence was deferred for him to be of good behaviour.
Stalker
A stalker plagued a Perth woman with unwanted calls, texts and social media messages for nearly a year.
Jilly Mackay appeared at the city’s sheriff court and admitted engaging in a course of conduct that caused her victim fear or alarm between October 14 2021 and September 17 last year.
Court papers state the 41-year-old, from Pilton, Edinburgh, repeatedly called, left voicemails, texted and emailed the woman in the knowledge contact was unwanted.
Mackay also repeatedly attended at her home in Glenochay Road and refused to leave.
The court heard she had an analogous previous conviction.
An interim non-harassment order was imposed and sentence deferred until next month.
‘Do you want to die?’
A woman has told how she stabbed her abusive partner with a kitchen knife after he tried to throttle her while she was heavily pregnant. Anthony Muir asked his girlfriend “do you want to die?” as he held her down on a kitchen worktop and leaned onto her baby bump. Muir, 56, is now behind bars after a jury found him guilty of assaulting his ex on multiple occasions over a near-nine-year period.
Dozy driver
A Fife motorist who fell asleep at the wheel and ploughed into a traffic sign has been disqualified for 18 months and will be supervised for a year.
Darren Reynolds, who was warned he could have killed a child in the Burntisland High Street crash, was also placed on an 81-day restriction of liberty order.
At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court Reynolds, 42, previously admitted dangerous driving.
The court heard he dozed off while driving his Vauxhall Astra at 6am on April 22, 2020.
He hit a road sign, which caused the paving slabs below to lift, leaving the vehicle stranded in mid-air.
When interviewed by police, Reynolds told them: “I fell asleep and then ‘bang’.”
Sheriff Tim Niven-Smith remarked: “He’s lucky it wasn’t, ‘I fell asleep and then bang, I’ve hit a child and killed them.”
Although his address was given on documents as Tweed Street, Dunfermline, the court heard he was living in his vehicle at the time due to personal difficulties.
Sex pest
A sex pest has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during a music event in a Dunfermline bar. In the Monarch on James Street, Barry Gibson, 53, from Kelty grabbed the stranger’s bottom and waist and tried to kiss her.
Prison assault
A Dundee knifeman has admitted assaulting a prison officer while he was serving time at HMP Perth.
Gary Goddard was locked up for four years in 2018 after a jury found him guilty of stabbing a man to his severe injury, permanent disfigurement and impairment.
The 37-year-old returned to the dock and pled guilty to assaulting the guard on April 5 2021.
He further admitted having an illicit SIM card on February 28 last year.
Solicitor Paul Parker Smith, defending, said his client had lashed out at the officer while he was being restrained but caused no injury.
Goddard, whose address was listed as a Salvation Army Hostel in Dundee’s Ward Road, was released on licence at the beginning of the year.
“He has already been punished within the prison system,” said the lawyer. “He is now staying on the straight and narrow.”
Sheriff Gillian Wade told Goddard: “You have spent a significant amount of time in custody and I don’t see any particular benefit to sending you back to jail unless there is a good reason to do so.”
She deferred sentence to March 15 for background reports and to assess alternatives to jail time.
The incident came to light when jurors were asked to rate the court service and one stated he had particularly enjoyed a lunchtime pie and then shopped his fellow member for the illicit internet activity.
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