‘In this day and age you can’t do this’ Pitlochry man fined for pushing boy

A Pitlochry man has been fined £250 for pushing a child in a playground.

The incident took place after some boys were ”dummy fighting” beside Letham Primary School and one of them was kicked by another boy.

Depute fiscal John Malpass told the court the boy who was kicked was the son of Richard Dargie’s partner.

”The boy went home in a distressed state and told the accused, who then returned to the site with him,” he said.

”The accused pushed the other boy and he crashed into a shed there. This boy then went home and told his parents and the police were called.”

Solicitor Cliff Culley said Dargie ”very much” regretted his actions. ”This was a one-off incident of which my client is embarrassed and ashamed.”

Dargie (32), of Duke of Edinburgh Road, Pitlochry, admitted that on September 26 last year at a grass area adjacent to Letham Primary School, Struan Road, Perth, he assaulted a boy by pushing him over, whereby he struck a shed and fell to the ground.

In sentencing Dargie, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told him: ”In this day and age you can’t do this.”