A 17-year-old Fife girl struck her former best friend over the head with a bottle of Buckfast at New Year.
The teenager, who is too young to be named, previously admitted hitting the girl on the head with a glass bottle, causing her to fall to the ground, at around 3am on January 1 last year, outside a property in Inverkeithing.
She appeared for sentencing this week at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
The court heard the victim had been smoking a cigarette on a doorstep when the girl approached her from the street.
Procurator fiscal depute Lauren Pennycook said the girl struck the other teenager with the bottle.
Defence lawyer Stephen Morrison said the two girls had previously been best friends and had fallen out.
The solicitor said they met up and his client, who was 16 at the time, had no intention of getting into a physical altercation and the attack seemed to be “spontaneous”.
A neighbour attempted to separate the pair and then contacted police.
The victim suffered lumps on her head and the side of her face.
Sheriff Alison Michie said: “The consequences of such an assault can be devastating and can lead to permanent scarring or injury.
“It’s fortunate that has not occurred in this case and the injuries to your former best friend are limited.
“That’s fortunate for you and for her but your actions are extremely serious.”
Sheriff Michie fined the girl £270 and made a £200 compensation order.
Bigoted abuse
A bigoted woman who stalked her Alyth neighbours has been ordered not to go near them for three years. Carol Borland previously admitted engaging in a course of conduct which caused two women fear or alarm, between March and April.
Ecstasy driver
A Dundee plumber has been banned from driving after being found under the influence of ecstasy behind the wheel.
Daniel Fraser, 26, of Main Street, was pulled over by police on Clepington Road after they had concern about his driving while on a routine patrol in October 2019.
Fraser, who has previous convictions for possession of the party drug, pled guilty to driving over the legal limit of the controlled substance at Dundee Sheriff Court.
If drugs are illegal, why are there legal limits for drug-driving?
Defence solicitor Jim Caird said Fraser would is likely to lose his job as a heating installation engineer as a result of losing his licence.
Sheriff Alison Michie disqualified Fraser from driving for 12 months and fined him £335.
Reliving his youth
James McConnachie, 54, who was caught hare coursing twice claimed he was “trying to relive his youth”. He was spotted unleashing lurcher dogs in farm fields in a bid to hunt down hares and was convicted at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Mooned police
A Carnoustie man who mooned police officers before urging others to attack them has been fined.
Jamie Laws admitted baring his buttocks at two constables during a rammy in the town’s High Street in the early hours of February 13.
Forfar Sheriff Court heard the 26-year-old gave the police the middle finger before pulling down his trousers.
Fiscal depute Stuart Hamilton said several members of the public were in the area at the time.
Laws ran off and was pursued by the constables.
He was caught in an alley way off Bonella Street, where he tried to escape by climbing a wall.
When Laws’ friends arrived, he shouted to them: “Just f***ing hit them, there’s only two of them.”
Laws, of Lethnot Green, struggled with the officers and assaulted one of them by striking him on the head with his arm.
Representing himself in the dock, Laws told Sheriff Robert More: “I was just drunk and being stupid. It’s no great, eh?”
The sheriff told Laws: “The most serious part of all this was when you were shouting to your pals.
“That must have been pretty scary for both of the officers.”
Laws was fined £300.
Golf course pervert
Fife pensioner Derek Holliday, 70, was placed on the Sex Offenders Register after admitting carrying out solo sex acts on a busy St Andrews golf course and in a bird hide near Tayport.
‘Pung a fag’
A Fife man who “pung a fag” into a Buckhaven wheat field, sparking a blaze which could have could have caused £6,000 worth of fire damage has been admonished.
Christopher Thomson, 28, of Rowan Crescent in the Fife town previously pled guilty to acting in a culpable and reckless manner at Muiredge Plantation, beside Starkies Woods.
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard had it not been for the quick actions of some dog walkers who alerted the authorities, stamping out the fire and calling the fire services, the damage could have been much worse.
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