By Paul Reoch

A PERTH woman who wrote on cars and sent letters to households in an attempt to reveal an alleged child abuser will appear for sentence at Perth Sheriff Court on April 16.

Kirsteen Boyd (33), of Darnhall Crescent, admitted that on July 28 at Woodside Crescent, Perth, she conducted herself in a disorderly manner by writing on a car —stating its owner was a child abuser —and placing notes through the door of a house in Woodside Crescent, claiming a neighbour was a child abuser and placing notes with similar references on nearby cars to the alarm of the lieges and committing a breach of the peace.

She also admitted that on the same date at a playpark in Murray Crescent, Perth, she conducted herself in a disorderly manner by writing on equipment and bins that a neighbour was a child abuser and committing a breach of the peace.

Depute fiscal Stuart Richardson told the court that before the incidents Boyd had received information that an individual known to her was a child abuser.

“She wrote on a car with a felt-tip pen and also on a neighbour’s door,” Mr Richardson said, adding, “She also put notes through other neighbours’ doors about the same allegations.

“These matters—including the graffiti in the playpark—were raised with the police.

“It was embarrassing for the victim as his children played in the play-park and saw the graffiti.”

Boyd’s solicitor, Jamie Baxter, told the court the complainer was her cousin and the victim was the cousin’s brother.

“The complainer had been a baby-sitter for the family concerned a number of years ago,” he said.

“My client received the information prior to these incidents and took matters into her own hands.”

Mr Baxter added, “These incidents took place in the early hours of the morning.

“My client—who is now a student at Perth College—had been drinking, and the consequences of this combined with her medication led to this.”

Sentencing Boyd, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told her, “I consider this to be a serious matter.

“It’s not unknown for persons to take matters into their own hands when they get wind of allegations that certain individuals are child abusers, and this results in people acting in a totally inappropriate way.”

Sentence was deferred for Boyd to be of good behaviour.