Kinross flatmates who were caught with hundreds of pounds worth of drugs have each been ordered to carry out 180 hours unpaid work.
Joe MacDonald, 25, of Bowton Road, Kinross and Jack Davidson, 21, of Canal Street, Perth, had £937 worth of cannabis and more than £1,000 of cocaine when police raided their home in Acremoar Drive on March 2 2021.
The pair, originally charged with being concerned in the supply of the drugs, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and pled guilty to lesser charges of possession.
Sheriff John MacRitchie said: “The sums involved are significant.
“The appropriate way to deal with this is by a community payback order with an unpaid work requirement.
“This will be an alternative to custody, given the value of the drugs.”
Raider jailed
A crack cocaine addict has been jailed for ten months after stealing from business owners who had previously provided food for him when he was living on the streets. Christopher Sinclair smashed his way into The Selkie restaurant in May this year.
Pest’s bail breach
An Angus pest awaiting sentencing for a string of sexual remarks breached his bail curfew by snoozing on a bench in Montrose.
William Whyte was on a 7pm to 7am curfew while he waits for a sentencing hearing for sexually harassing a female paramedic.
He was also in court earlier this week for verbally abusing women at Arbroath Bus Station and a entering a woman’s home, climbing into a bed and then urinating in it.
He had been bailed to his brother’s bedsit in Strathmore Place in Montrose.
However the 49-year-old was spotted passed out on a bench in the town centre at 7.20pm on June 7.
He appeared from custody at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit breaching his curfew.
Solicitor Nick Markwoski said Whyte was so drunk, he was taken to Ninewells before he was released into police custody.
“Him and his brother fall out a lot,” he said.
Sheriff Mark O’Hanlon deferred sentencing until next week to call with Whyte’s other matters and released him on bail.
Scout leader jailed
A Scout leader who plied teenage boys with alcohol and sexually abused them on camping trips has been jailed. One of the victims of John Somerville, 57, has told The Courier of his lasting ordeal.
‘Knocking on prison door’
Roofer Dylan Cameron has been told to pay more than £2,700 in compensation following a “rampage” in Dunfermline.
Cameron, 26, previously pled guilty to repeatedly punching a man on the head and biting him on the thumb, to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement, on November 14 2021.
On the same date he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner at The Commercial Inn, Douglas Street, and elsewhere on Douglas Street and New Row.
He admitted throwing a road sign at a window, causing it to break, throwing a bin which struck a van windscreen, repeatedly jumping on the bonnet and punching the bonnet and windscreen, and kicking and punching the bonnet of a car.
Cameron, of Primrose Lane, Rosyth, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court for sentencing, where defence lawyer Danielle Stringer said her client had been “drinking excessively” at the time of the self-confessed “rampage”, which he does not remember.
Sheriff Alison McKay told Cameron his behaviour that day was “quite outrageous” and he is “knocking on the door” of Perth Prison “looking to be let in”.
The sheriff sentenced him to a six-month curfew order and 300 hours of unpaid work.
She ordered him to pay £2,726 in compensation – £1,000 to his assault victim, £1,100 to the owner of one car, £250 to the owner of a second vehicle and £376 to The Commercial Inn.
The sheriff told Cameron one of the reasons she was not sending him to prison is because she wants him to stay in employment.
Day trippers
Police found a drug-addled couple unconscious in their car on a Brechin roadside with the engine running and a crying child in the back seat. When they woke Malissa McCabe, she thought husband Ryan McCabe had driven all the way to Aberdeen when he had actually only gone a few yards.
Telephone wire assault charges
Three men have appeared in court accused of choking another with a telephone wire during in a Montrose robbery.
Lewis Greenan is accused of assaulting the man at a property in Little Nursery, Montrose on May 26.
He is accused of repeatedly striking him on the head to his severe injury.
Greenan is also accused of returning to the property on June 2 with Sean Cocker and Kevin Paton and attacking the man again.
All three men are alleged to have assaulted him while acting with another, by pinning him to the ground and wrapping a telephone wire around his neck.
They are accused of then tightening the wire, thereby restricting his breathing.
The men are also accused of robbing him of a mobile phone and Playstation console.
Greenan faces another charge os assaulting a second man there on June 2 by repeatedly striking him on the head to his injury.
26-year-old Cocker, of Mearns Drive in Montrose, appeared in private at Forfar Sheriff Court on Monday.
He made no plea and was released on bail.
On Thursday, 23-year-old Greenan, of Little Nursery in Montrose, and 45-year-old Paton, of Queen Street in Montrose, appeared in private.
Neither men tendered a plea. Greenan was granted bail and Paton was remanded in custody by Sheriff Mark O’Hanlon.
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