A Forfar woman bit another who came to her aid in a busy Angus pub.
Debbie Cumming, 30, admitted assault at the Forfar Arms, on the town’s East High Street on March 19.
Forfar Sheriff Court heard the victim of the assault had been dancing when she heard a disturbance involving the accused.
She went to help but was set upon by Cumming, who sank her teeth into her upper left arm.
She was left with bruising and required a course of antibiotics.
Sheriff Derek Reekie sentenced Cumming, of Restenneth Drive, to a 12-month supervision order as a direct alternative to jail.
Fife chase
A cocaine-fuelled driver ended a 45-minute police chase by ploughing his lorry into a Fife garden. Last May, Stuart Nowrie, 37, from Dunfermline, was chased in a flatbed pickup truck by police from Blairhall to Cardenden.
iPad anger
An angry Fife offshore worker trashed a phone shop as he believed staff had not fixed his daughter’s iPad.
David Ferris, of Burntisland’s Rossend Terrace, was found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner following a trial at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
He was acquitted of three other allegations of assaulting staff at Fone City in Kirkcaldy High Street on September 6 2020.
CCTV footage played in court showed Ferris picking up an iPad and leaving the shop before returning and sweeping items off the shelves with his hands.
Ferris, 47, told the trial he had paid for the device to be fixed but that it had not been.
Footage then showed him leave and return to the shop for a third time and kick out close to where a female worker was clearing up the mess.
Two other staff members gave evidence Ferris had grabbed the woman and dragged her out of the shop into the street but this was not shown on shop CCTV.
They also claimed Ferris punched one of them in the street.
Ferris denied this and said he left the shop as he was being chased by the three workers, who were throwing punches.
He said the altercation only ended when he punched one of the staff members in self defence.
Sheriff Robert More convicted Ferris of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by behaving aggressively and knocking items off shelves and fined him £225.
Customer assault
A Perthshire shopkeeper brutally attacked a customer outside his store, leaving him with broken ribs and a punctured lung. Nahman Naheem, manager of the News Plus shop and post office in Auchterarder, knocked Andrew McNaughton to the ground and sat on him as he continued to rain down punches in a dispute over his shop door being damaged.
Knifeman’s SIM
A Londoner jailed for his role in a “cowardly” Dundee stabbing was caught with an illegal SIM card for a second time after guards found him passed out in his cell.
Liam Hargreaves, who is serving a 50-month sentence at Perth Prison, was discovered unconscious, clutching a mobile phone.
The 23-year-old appeared via video link at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted possession of the contraband device.
Fiscal depute Matthew Kerr told the court: “The accused is the sole occupant of his cell.
“At around 8am on May 22, officers carried out their routine morning numbers check.
“The accused was unresponsive. Staff were called to check his welfare.
“They saw that he was holding a prison-issued mobile phone.
“Upon inspecting it, they found a non-prison-issued SIM card.”
Solicitor Paul Ralph, defending, said: “Mr Hargreaves has family in the south of England and he was using this SIM card to keep in touch with them.”
Sheriff Craig McSherry imposed a concurrent sentence of four months.
Hargreaves was jailed in April for his involvement in the attack on 20-year-old Jahmyles Hyndes in Dundee’s Cleghorn Street.
