A Dundonian sex offender will be on the Register for five years.
However, Jordan Forbes received no additional punishment for assaults committed ten years ago as a schoolboy.
After a three-day trial at the High Court in Dundee, charges against Forbes of raping a girl and sexually assaulting another in the street seven years later were not proven.
However, the majority of jurors did find the 24-year-old guilty of two sexual assaults.
In the summer of 2013, Forbes – then 14 – sexually assaulted a girl who was either 10 or 11 at a property near his home in St Fillans Road by instructing her to follow him, instructing her to kiss him and then seizing her by the body and kissing her.
The jury also convicted him of repeatedly trying to kiss a different girl, aged 10, that summer at another address in the same street.
After jurors confirmed their verdict, advocate depute Graeme Jessop opted not to move for sentencing.
Presiding, Lord Ericht explained to Forbes he was free to leave the dock and would not be further punished for these assaults, although he would have the convictions on his record.
However, the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 are still mandatory for anyone convicted of an offence with a significant sexual element.
Forbes will accordingly be on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.
Assault/ abduction trial verdict
A group of men has been cleared by a jury of savagely assaulting two brothers at a Fife industrial yard but one has been convicted of abducting the siblings. Owen Bonner was found guilty of driving John and Lee Dunsire in a van to the Matthew and Son site in Kirkcaldy, against their will. But he was cleared of then assaulting them, along with William Matthew and John Matthew. A fourth man, Connor Davies, had already been found not guilty.
Retail raid
A Kirkcaldy handyman who worked at the town’s indoor market used his key to get in during the night and steal £1000 worth of clothing.
Gary Young, 55, of Kirkcaldy’s Windmill Road, admitted theft when he appeared in court after being caught on CCTV taking the clothes from a stall inside the High Street premises late on October 27 last year.
A woman arrived to open the stall the next morning and noticed gaps in the shelves and rails strewn across the floor.
Fiscal depute Lee-Anne Hannan told Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court Young was seen on camera arriving at the market and putting items in Royal Mail sacks.
He has since lost his job. The stolen goods were never recovered.
Defence lawyer David McLaughlin said his client was with a friend who had wanted him to go there to smoke cannabis.
The friend began “helping themselves to this clothing” and Young decided to help by taking some of the bags.
It is thought the friend was not prosecuted.
Sheriff Garry Sutherland deferred sentence for six months for Young to be of good behaviour and find money to pay for a compensation order.
Needle menace
Robert Robertson, 42, has admitted endangering young children by leaving uncapped needles at the entrance to a nursery. He admitted acting in a culpable and reckless manner by leaving the exposed syringe needles outside Quarryview Nursery in Dundee.
Street lockdown
A man has admitted causing a disturbance with a machete that led to a Perth street being locked down by armed police.
Gareth Davies, 42, was arrested following a near-six-hour stand-off at his home in Campsie Road on April 30 last year.
At Perth Sheriff Court, he admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, likely to cause fear or alarm.
During the incident he shouted, swore and held a machete at his throat, threatened to harm himself and struck a door.
Davies further admitted a second outburst at his home on July 14, when he damaged household items, smashed windows and held two knives at his throat.
He cut himself and made further threats to self harm.
He also pled guilty to repeatedly contacting a young family member on September 18, despite requests to desist, and uttering threats of violence.
Sheriff John MacRitchie told Davies his actions had tied up police resources and encouraged him to continue getting support for his personal difficulties.
Davies was ordered to stay home between 7pm and 7am as part of an eight-month restriction of liberty order.
Love rival
Montrose woman Lesha Grant, 24, plunged a pint glass into a love rival’s head after spotting her on a night out. She was jailed at Dundee Sheriff Court for nine months for injuring and permanently disfiguring her victim, after which she shouted: “That’s for s****ing my boyfriend”.
Cash seized from dealer
A teenage Arbroath drug dealer has had his cash seized and will be supervised for 18 months.
Josh Finnie, 19, admitted being concerned in the supply of cannabis on January 28 2022
Forfar Sheriff Court heard police raided his supported accommodation in North Grimsby, Arbroath, with a drugs warrant.
They found £235 of cannabis, bags and snap bags, and an iPhone with incriminating evidence.
More than £700 was also seized.
Solicitor Nick Markowski said: “He is a young man who I think has done a bit of growing up since this.
“He wasn’t keeping good company. Cannabis and other drug misuse was a daily feature in his life.”
Finnie, now of Dishlandtown Street, was placed under supervision for 18 months and had the cash and mobile seized.
Pool perv
A pervert caught peering under a Fife swimming pool cubicle as a 12-year-old girl got changed has been punished with unpaid work. Krzysztof Sawa was previously convicted after trial of voyeurism at Fife Sports & Leisure Trust’s Levenmouth pool.
Holocaust denier
French prosecutors have submitted a further warrant for a convicted Holocaust denier who has allegedly spent two years on the run living in Scotland.
Vincent Reynouard, 53, was told authorities in his homeland have issued a second extradition request to their Scottish counterparts for his return to France.
The private tutor was apprehended in Anstruther on November 10 2022 on a Trade and Co-operation Agreement warrant.
He is wanted in France as the authorities there believe he is guilty of denying the Holocaust took place – an offence in France.
Reports say Reynouard was using a false identity while working as a private tutor after evading French authorities for two years before being arrested.
Defence solicitor Paul Dunne told Sheriff Kenneth Campbell KC at Edinburgh Sheriff Court: “He is the person properly named in the warrant and I can confirm that he does not consent to extradition.”
Since 1991, Reynouard has been convicted four times and lost his job as a maths teacher because of his denial stance.
A procedural hearing will take place on April 20, with the full hearing on June 8 2023.
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