A former security guard at Leven’s Diageo complex who sent a sexually explicit message to a teenage girl has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.
David Anderson, 56, was snared by colleagues who checked his unattended phone, found vile messages to the youngster and screenshotted them to show police.
He pled guilty to sending a sexually explicit message to the girl and engaging in a sexually explicit conversation with her at Diageo Scotland Ltd, Banbeath Road, Leven and elsewhere, on September 4 2021.
The charge states this was done intentionally and for the purposes of obtaining sexual gratification or of humiliating, distressing or alarming her.
He also admitted breaching a condition not to contact her by phoning her and arranging to meet her at Kirkcaldy’s Beveridge Park, between October 31 and November 1 2021.
Anderson, of Denbert Place in Kennoway, was ordered to carry out 160 hours of unpaid work and placed on a three-year supervision order.
Heavy metal musician jailed
A heavy metal musician from Tayside who raped three people has been jailed for eight years. Lewis Brodie, 28, preyed on his victims at locations in Dundee between 2010 and 2019.
Sorry… not sorry
Paul Rice from Dundee headbutted a police officer who arrested him, then spat at two more when he was taken to Ninewells.
Officers visited Rice at Bonnethill Court in Dundee’s Hilltown Terrace on October 7 in 2021 in connection with a possible assault.
They knocked multiple times after arriving just after 5.30am, before Rice opened the door and was arrested.
As officers applied handcuffs to his right wrist, the 41-year-old began to tense up to resist and PC Matthew Alexander moved in to assist.
At this point, Rice said: “What the f*** are you looking at” and headbutted the constable to the left side of his forehead, cutting his own head in the process.
Rice told the officers: “Which one of you that was, I’m sorry about that.
“I’m sorry about headbutting you.”
Due to his wound, he was taken to Ninewells but at the emergency department car park after being treated, he spat in the direction of two more constables, hitting them in the face.
At Forfar Sheriff Court, he admitted assaulting the three constables.
Solicitor Alex Short said her client had not intended to spit in the constables’ faces.
Sheriff Paul Brown ordered background reports and deferred sentencing until June 5.
Rice had his bail continued.
Chocolate fountain embezzler
Elaine McCall, 51, who stole £18,000 from an award-winning chocolate fountain firm has been jailed. She admitted embezzling the money from Sephra Europe Ltd while an employee at the firm’s Kirkcaldy site, between March 2019 and March 2020. It was her second such offence.
Re-sentenced
A Kinross man who randomly attacked a neighbour while high on a cocktail of booze and pain medicine has been re-sentenced.
James King appeared at Perth Sheriff Court in June last year and admitted lashing out at a man during a gathering at his house in the town’s Greenpark area.
The 32-year-old later tried to headbutt a police officer.
The court heard father-of-two King had no memory of the incident on October 9 2021, and only remembered waking up in a police cell.
King was ordered to pay £300 compensation to his victim and carry out 85 hours of unpaid work.
He returned to court this week and admitted breaching his community payback order.
The court heard he had not paid his victim and still has 14 hours of community work to complete.
Solicitor Linda Clark said King had occasional work as a labourer and was unable to pay compensation because of mounting debts to others.
Sheriff David Hall admonished him for the breach but placed him on supervision for six months.
He was ordered to complete his remaining hours and pay his victim.
Sheriff Hall said: “The people who you owe money to can’t put you in jail – but the courts can.”
‘Curious’ pervert
A Carnoustie pervert’s home was raided by police after he was caught peddling sick filth “to win affection.” Fraser Thomson immediately admitted to officers he had indecent images of children on his phone when they came to his door with a warrant. He told them he did not enjoy looking at them and was just curious.
Mother threat
A Dunfermline man threatened to slit his own mother’s throat after a night of boozing and suspected LSD consumption soon after his 18th birthday.
Tyler McKenzie made the violent threat after being taken home by police shortly before 3am on September 10 last year.
He admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner when he appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
Procurator fiscal depute Amy Robertson told Dunfermline Sheriff Court police were flagged down in the city’s Kirkgate area by members of the public concerned about McKenzie’s “intoxicated” state.
Officers took him home to his mother, who asked him to go to bed, which prompted him to shout and swear.
The fiscal depute said: “The accused approached (his mum) and shouted in her face he was going to slit her throat and he was going to kill her”.
Police arrested McKenzie and put him in the back of their van, where he began referring to officers as “protestant b**ards and fenians”, before being taken to the police station.
McKenzie, 18, of Kellock Avenue, pled guilty to a religiously aggravated offence of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
Defence lawyer Brian Black said McKenzie, of the city’s Kellock Avenue, had just turned 18 and had been in a nightclub prior to the offence.
The solicitor said not only was McKenzie drinking too much alcohol but he had stopped taking his medication, adding: “And (he) says someone gave him something he believes was LSD but he’s not quite sure”.
Mr Black said his client, a first offender, is “utterly ashamed” and “embarrassed” by his behaviour.
Sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith deferred sentence for six months for McKenzie to be of good behaviour.
Inquiry re-opens
The public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh in Kirkcaldy has re-convened. The Courier has looked back on the evidence so far from the opening hearings and the second tranche of witness testimony.
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