A Fife motorist caught at the wheel with 16 times time limit of an illegal drug in his system has been banned from the roads.
Ryan Harlow had 800mics of benzoylecgonine in his system, the legal limit being 50.
He was also found to have taken more than five times the legal limit of cocaine.
Harlow, 29, of Keir Hardie street, Methil, admitted driving under the influence of both drugs at Kirkcaldy’s Whyteman’s Brae on February 21, 2021.
Sentence was the deferred and he was banned from driving in the interim.
Murderer jailed
Rhys Bennett, 23, from Fife admitted the horrific rape and murder of Aberdeen mother-of-two Jill Barclay.
Bennett followed his victim from a pub, before attacking her and then setting her on fire in a bid to cover his tracks.
The former Dundee and Angus student, who grew up in Brechin, was arrested shortly afterwards at his home in Ballingry.
Ms Barclay’s family spoke of their devastation after Bennett was jailed for at least 24 years at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Revenge porn
An Arbroath man has admitted sharing intimate files of two women on social media without their permission.
Jordan Tasker appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit two revenge porn charges.
The 30-year-old, of St Murdoch’s Crescent, pled guilty to, in 2022, disclosing a photograph or film of one woman which showed or appeared to her show her engaging in a sexual act.
Tasker targeted his second victim between December 2021 and June 2022, repeatedly sharing an intimate photo of the woman on social media with multiple people.
Tasker admitted his actions were reckless or intended to cause fear, alarm or distress.
Sheriff Eric Brown ordered reports and deferred sentencing until June 29.
Uncle and nephew dealers
Michael Torano from Dundee, who blamed his dead father for his massive drugs stash, was jailed for dealing street Valium. His nephew Joseph Torano, narrowly avoided prison for being concerned in the supply of cocaine.
Knife at fiscal’s office
A man was found unconscious and in possession of a knife in the grounds of a Fife procurator fiscal office.
Paul Fraser, 37, was intoxicated and had appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court shortly before the offence.
His defence solicitor said Frazer had not intentionally gone to the town’s procurator fiscal office but had simply ended up there.
She added the staff who found him were not threatened by him but were concerned for his health.
Fraser, a prisoner at Perth, admitted having the lock knife outside the Carlyle Road office on April 20 this year.
He was sentenced to 160 days in prison.
Leniency
A sheriff showed leniency to disqualified driver Deborah Cameron, 40, who was caught behind the wheel on the A9 at Perth. Previously jailed for a high speed chase, she has since shattered her jaw and cracked her skull after falling from scaffolding and undergone extensive surgery after being mauled by a dog.
Locked out
A Perth man who ranted at paramedics as they tried to treat his sick mother has been tagged.
Kenneth Reid was seen by neighbours shouting and banging on windows at his mother’s home in Toll House Gardens.
Perth Sheriff Court heard ambulance members were inside the house when he banged on the windows.
He shouted at them: “Open the f***ing door.”
Fiscal depute Bill Kermode said: “One of the paramedics advised the accused to leave because his mother was very poorly.”
Reid, of Grampian Court, was arrested later that afternoon.
Solicitor Paul Ralph said: “When he is sober, Mr Reid is active in providing care to his mother.
“He is 51 and should know better.”
Sheriff William Gilchrist ordered Reid to stay at home between 8pm and 7am as part of a four-month restriction of liberty order.
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