A drug dealer caught with heroin and a wad of cash at his Perth city centre home has been told to prepare for prison.
Police raided Andrew Townsley’s Cross Street flat following a tip-off last summer.
They found just under 2g of class-A heroin and scales with traces of brown powder.
Officers also discovered more than £420 in cash.
Townsley, 39, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted being concerned in the supply of the drug on July 21 2021.
Prosecutors accepted a not guilty plea from co-accused Chloe Hamilton.
Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr said police swooped on the property at around 9.20am.
One snapbag of heroin was found on a bedside table, while another wrap was found on Townsley’s bed.
Mr Kerr said a monetary value for the drugs was not available.
Sheriff Euan Duthie deferred sentence until October 17 for background reports.
He told Townsley: “Incidentally, I’m going to be considering custody so you should be making preparations for that.”
Drink-drive teacher
A teacher was more than four times the legal drink-drive limit when caught by police following a crash in Dunfermline. Julie Thorburn (also known as Young) pled guilty to driving under the influence (96mics/22) at Halbeath Roundabout, the A907 road, Pittsburgh Road, and elsewhere in Fife on June 28 this year.
Head stamper guilty
Alan Small from Fife’s East Neuk has been remanded after jurors agreed he injured a man by stamping on his head.
Small has served prison time before and has a directly analogous record of previous convictions.
A jury of ten women and five men heard three days of evidence at Dundee Sheriff Court before returning a majority verdict of guilty.
Small, of Cunzie Street in Anstruther, was convicted of carrying out the attack in Mayfield Court in April 2019.
Sheriff Paul Brown remanded the 35-year-old in custody and ordered reports ahead of sentencing on October 17.
DWP cheat’s fake children
A working Dundee dad made up a fictitious landlord and invented multiple children to make illegal DWP claims to fund his drug addiction. Darren King, 36, used the services of a benefits fixer to claim thousands of ill-gotten pounds.
Smashed oven
Perth man Kieran Young viciously assaulted his ex-girlfriend, smashed up her oven and stabbed her purse with a knife
Young, 26, attacked his former partner after charging into her Lewis Place home and demanding money, saying: “Give me my f***ing money, or I’ll cause £3,500 worth of damage.”
Perth Sheriff Court heard Young left his victim grazed and bruised when he struggled violently with her, tried to grab her mobile phone and caused her to fall.
While she lay on the floor he kicked her to the body.
Young took a knife and cut open her purse before throwing it into her garden.
He then stormed into her kitchen and back heeled her oven door, smashing the glass.
Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr said a third party called the police.
“The complainer gave the accused some money and he left,” he said.
Young, of Balgowan Road, admitted assault and behaving in a threatening or abusive manner on December 4, last year.
Sheriff Euan Duthie placed him on supervision for two years, ordered him to carry out 190 hours of unpaid work and made a £400 compensation order
Layby creep
A terrified solicitor was forced to defend herself when a sinister stranger tried to kiss her in an Perthshire layby. Creepy Craig Denim signalled the lawyer to stop as she drove down the A9 and told her: “I pulled you over ’cause you’re tidy.”
Not guilty
Dundee man Scott Ross was found not guilty of sexual assault after a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court.
Ross, 39, of Ballbeggie St, had been accused of groping and seizing a woman at Rewind nightclub on Dundee’s Seagate on December 19 last year.
He was found not guilty by Sheriff David Hall.
Not proven
At the High Court in Dundee, a jury found rape allegations against Michael Morley, 41, of Cullen Place, Dundee, not proven. He had been accused of drugging and raping two women in the city but was acquitted. He was found guilty of two domestic offences and sentence was deferred due to his lengthy record.
Bad judgement
43-year-old Dunfermline drink-driver William Blount has been banned from the road and told to carry out unpaid work.
Blount was more than twice the legal limit (49/22) when he was stopped by police in his Kia Picanto in the city’s Arthur Street, shortly before 4pm on August 17.
He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, where fiscal depute Lauren Pennycook told the court Blount was spotted by police, parked on a white zig-zag line.
Blount drove off but was stopped in Arthur Street and officers could smell alcohol on his breath.
Defence lawyer Aime Allan said Blount had been drinking into the early hours of the morning and slept until the afternoon.
Ms Allan said: “It was a misjudgement on his part. He assumed he would be ok (to drive) by then.”
The solicitor said Blount, of Dunfermline’s Edward Street, is a scaffolder to trade but is not currently working.
Sheriff Susan Duff banned Blount from driving for a year and ordered him to carry out 66 hours of unpaid work.
Copper-plated idiocy
Would-be copper thief Edward Strachan was caught red-handed in the abandoned Early Childcare Centre in Perth with a bag of tools. His partner-in-crime Christopher Lindsay, was dangling through a hole in the ceiling, Perth Sheriff Court heard.
Teen rage
A drunken Tayport teenager used a prybar and angle grinder to break into a car key safe.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had been drinking with friends in his garden following a funeral on July 6.
In the early hours of the following morning, his mother told the friends to leave and the boy became irate when his mother would not let him drive away.
He went to the garden shed shortly after 3am and used a prybar to try and force the safe open but failed.
The boy then used an angle grinder but again failed to crack the safe.
He threw the grinder and the safe on the kitchen floor in frustration, damaging the flooring.
When police arrived, he lunged at Constable Jessica Moir and headbutted her.
The boy appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court and admitted acting threateningly, vandalising the safe and the floor and assaulting the police officer.
Solicitor Angela McLardy said he was diagnosed with ADHD and ODD and that he has now realised his medication does not mix with alcohol.
Sheriff Robert More admonished the student and said he hoped the first offender’s experience with the legal system has had a “suitably chastising impact.”
The sheriff added: “Please get on with your college and you’ve really got to take it easy on the drink.”
