A cocaine-fuelled driver caused substantial damaged by falling asleep at the wheel and ploughing into parked cars.
Chloe Anderson, 34, was more than five times over the drug-driving limit when she nodded off and caused the four vehicle pile-up.
She admitted driving dangerously by falling asleep at the wheel and losing control of her car in Dundee’s Old Glamis Road on November 3 last year.
Anderson, of Kirkton Place, Forfar, also admitted driving with 264 mics of cocaine metabolite Benzoylecgonine in her system – the legal limit is 50 mics.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard Anderson was driving her Vauxhall Mokka when she crashed into a parked Renault Captur.
It was shunted into a parked Ford C-Max, which then struck a Skodia Fabia.
All four vehicles were damaged.
Anderson has been banned from driving on an interim basis and sentence was deferred for the preparation of social work background reports.
Sheriff John Rafferty told Anderson he was “not impressed” after she turned up 30 minutes late for court and warned her she would be jailed if it happened again.
Perthshire murder trial day 2
The daughter of murder-accused John Lizanec has told his trial how her mother was controlled, threatened and manipulated by him throughout their “toxic” relationship. She revealed to the court how she and her mother Michelle made a secret plan to move her into a new house, away from “abusive” Lizanec – who denies murdering her in Inchture, near Perth, on February 13 2021 – but she was found dead soon afterwards.
App breach
A sex offender who secretly set up apps to play games online has been jailed for eight months.
Christopher Watson, 29, broke the strict conditions of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) by downloading Snapchat and other applications.
Watson was caught when police turned up at his home in Anstruther to carry out a spot check.
Fiscal depute Gavin Letford told Dundee Sheriff Court Watson had been made subject to a decade-long SOPO at Chelmsford Crown Court on March 3 2021.
“They noticed he had Snapchat on his home screen.
“He said he did not realise it would be a breach and he deleted the app in front of them.
“When he was asked to produce his laptop and Xbox he appeared to become anxious.
“His laptop had been used to access Steam and Discord apps for gaming.”
Watson admitted breaching conditions by downloading an app – Snapchat – which automatically deletes data, and deleting his internet browsing history, contrary to the terms of his SOPO.
34 charges dropped in murder trial
Prosecutors have dropped multiple allegations of theft and fraud against Fife murder accused David Barnes. A total of 34 charges were withdrawn by the Crown on the fourth day of the 33-year-old’s trial at the High Court in Edinburgh. Barnes remains accused of attacking and murdering Ean Coutts and removing his body from his home in Kinglassie using a wheelie bin, and attempting to burn the remains at Whitehill Industrial Estate, Glenrothes.
Battered rival over ‘affair’
Christopher Tennant, 43, from Dundee, has been jailed for a year for launching a savage city centre street attack.
Tennant believed the man was having an affair with his partner and violently challenged him on February 26.
Fiscal depute Gavin Letford told Dundee Sheriff Court: “At 5.15 pm the victim attended Couttie’s Wynd to use the restroom prior to getting public transport.
“He was immediately approached by Tennant, who accused him of sleeping with his partner – which he refuted, advising that they were merely friends.”
Tennant shouted “that’s my f***ing missus” before punching the man multiple times on the head and knocking him to the ground in the street.
Mr Letford said: “Whilst he was on the ground, Mr Tennant inflicted multiple kicks to the victim’s head.
“The victim tried to grab hold of Tennant’s legs to prevent any further blows, causing the accused to respond by directing further punches at his head.
“The accused thereafter lifted a glass bottle to strike the victim on the head with it, before leaving.
“Police saw the victim bleeding from the mouth and nose, he had cuts to the forehead and chin, and swelling to the eyes and head.”
Tennant admitted assault and acting in a threatening or abusive manner towards police by telling them he would urinate on them and defecate in his cell at the force’s divisional HQ in Dundee.
Pensioner fine with fine
A pensioner celebrated outside Perth Sheriff Court after being fined to ensure “a line was drawn” under a neighbour dispute which ended in violence. Angus McEwan, 70, from Coupar Angus rained blows on his younger rival over the feud and admitted assault.
Cannabis for pain
Chronic pain sufferer Graeme Boyle, 56, from Tealing, claimed he was producing cannabis oil to provide relief after he was found with a crop of plants worth more than £80,000 in his home.
The unemployed former oil worker had a small tub of cannabis oil in his fridge and more than 100 cannabis plants growing around in an outbuilding at his family home.
Further plants were found within a tent and a caravan.
The plants had a potential yield worth £80,250, Dundee Sheriff Court heard.
He admitted being concerned in the production of the drug on September 27 2021.
His wife Jacqueline Boyle, 46, was cleared of the same charge.
Sheriff Jillian Martin-Brown deferred sentence for the preparation of social work reports and Boyle had bail continued.
Teacher caused biker’s death
Tayside teacher Angela Addis has admitted causing the death of a popular Brechin biker after “carelessly” pulling out of a junction. Jonathan “Jon” Marsh was killed after becoming trapped under the wheels of her car in November 2022.
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