A man was left with a bleed to the brain after being attacked in a Fife street.
Steven Robinson, 38, punched and kicked his victim in full view of several witnesses.
One tried to separate the pair after Robinson kicked the man as he lay in the road.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard the victim had not suffered any long-term repercussions as a result of the brain bleed.
Robinson, of Whitchurch in Shropshire, admitted assaulting the man on Station Road, Oakley, on September 9 last year.
Sentence was deferred for reports.
Robbery kept going through heart attack
A callous mugger carried on trying to wrestle a handbag away from her 78-year-old victim as she was having a heart attack. The pensioner suffered chest pains and breathlessness when she was shocked by drug addict Hayley Spink climbing into her car to snatch her bag in Dundee.
Rapist’s prison SIM
A used car salesman jailed for abducting and repeatedly raping a teacher in Perth was caught using an illicit SIM card behind bars.
Barry Dalton, locked up for 10 years and six months in 2014, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted having the contraband device at the city’s jail on April 22 last year.
The court heard Dalton, who is subject to sex offender restrictions, had been released in June 2019 but was recalled to jail the following year following an alleged relationship.
Solicitor John McLauchlin said the 49-year-old had been a “model prisoner”.
Sheriff William Wood told Dalton he did not intend to send him back to jail but warned “custody is still open to me.”
Sentence was deferred for reports until July 5.
Dalton, of Westray Court, Perth, was found guilty of a “brutal and sustained attack” in Dunkeld Road.
He kicked and punched his victim, brandished a pair of scissors and a plank of wood at her, bit and scalped her, compressed her throat and repeatedly rapped her.
The woman told jurors she was too scared to leave the house, fearing Dalton would kill her.
His sentence was later cut by two years on appeal.
Depraved Perthshire pervert
A depraved Perthshire pervert told parents he wanted to sexually abuse their children and become part of a “paedo family”. Twisted Kevin Flaherty from Aberfeldy asked other creeps online if they would adopt children with him. He was remanded for his own safety, pending sentencing.
50 calls in 146 minutes
A Fife woman sent her ex-partner a “sorry for your loss” card containing a sexual remark and an image of her in lingerie demanding child maintenance during a stalking campaign.
Morgan Wallace, 24, of Dunfermline, pled guilty to engaging in a course of conduct which caused a man fear or alarm at addresses in Dunfermline, Inverkeithing and elsewhere, between August 1 2022 and January 6 this year.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard the man involved has previous convictions for domestic incidents in relation to her.
Procurator fiscal depute Jennifer Bairner told the court their relationship ended acrimoniously and Wallace repeatedly tried to rekindle it through phoning and messaging the man in August last year.
Ms Bairner said: “The complainer rejected these attempts which led to the accused believing he had moved on from the relationship with another female”.
On October 4, Wallace called the man’s mobile phone 50 times in two hours, 26 minutes.
After 21 calls, he answered and told her to stop.
He blocked the number but received another 20 calls from a private number later that day.
The fiscal continued: “On the same day he received a bank payment into a bank account of one pence from the accused’s account with the payment reference ‘phone me now’.
The court heard the man received another 37 missed calls from Wallace and private numbers between October 7 and 22.
He had been given reason to unblock her number by this point.
The man also received numerous Snapchat friend requests which he believed to be from her.
The fiscal said Wallace also attended his place of work uninvited and at the end of October, Wallace sent the card.
The calls continued in November and she contacted two of his family members.
Defence lawyer Russel McPhate said from his client’s perspective the relationship was abusive and a number of things bothered her in the aftermath, including him not paying child maintenance.
Mr McPhate said his client also took issue with photos and posts on social media which she felt were intrusive.
Sheriff William Gilchrist noted the man’s domestic convictions and said it was “clearly an abusive relationship” and deferred sentence for six months for Wallace to be of good behaviour.
Should have kept his receipts
A banned motorist who ditched a stolen car after a police chase was caught after officers found a receipt in the vehicle. The receipt was linked to the account of Aiden Paterson, 23, from Kennoway, who admitted reset of the vehicle.
Bottled car
Gordon Heron, 39, of North Street, Montrose damaged a car by throwing a glass bottle at it, then abused police who arrested him.
He spent a night in the cells and appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court the following day to admit acting in a threatening or abusive manner outside his home and damaging the car.
He admitted a second charge of threatening or abusive behaviour in the course of his journey in police custody to West Bell Street HQ, by acting aggressively, shouting and swearing and threatening police officers and their families with violence.
Sentence was deferred to July 13 and he was remanded in custody.
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