A GP receptionist has been fined more than £1,000 after drunkenly driving a car over the Tay Road Bridge on just three wheels.
Sparks flew from the Kia Picanto driven by Rebecca Cunningham before she was stopped by police heading into Dundee.
A member of the public tipped-off police just before 4am on May 30 the car was driving southbound on the A92 towards Kirkcaldy
Fiscal depute Katie Stewart said the car had three wheels and one tyre down to the rim while travelling at 60mph, “causing sparks on the road”.
It was intercepted arriving in Dundee at about 4.15am and sole occupant Cunningham, was arrested, with officers noting a smell of alcohol.
The 23-year-old, of Barnhill, pled guilty without legal representation to dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol (75mics/ 22).
Cunningham told Sheriff David Mackie, after submitting a letter outlining her personal circumstances, she was working with counselling services to address her issues with alcohol.
She told the court: “I’m a GP receptionist. I work some weekends in a pub.
“At the moment, it’s not the best idea for me to be there. Everything is in the letter I gave you.”
She was fined a total of £1,040 and disqualified from driving for 12 months and until she completes the extended test.
Bingo boss busted
The boss of a busy Angus bingo hall has admitted pilfering more than £15,000 from its safe and cooking the books to disguise her thefts. Lindsey Crooknorth, 41, appeared at Forfar Sheriff Court to admit a year-long campaign of embezzling from Buzz Bingo in Arbroath when she was its manager.
‘Last straw’
A Fife man twice punched his neighbour in the face after calling the authorities “about 20 times” because of noise.
Darren Currie, 29, of Viewforth, Buckhaven, appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to plead guilty to repeatedly punching his victim on the head to his injury on February 5 last year.
Prosecutor Eve McKaig told the court there had been ongoing difficulties between the men and Currie had been “angered” by the movement of a piece of furniture.
The other man was outside and returning to his flat when Currie walked towards him and punched him to the right side of his face.
He hit him a second time to the left side of the face and police were contacted.
Defence lawyer Kerr Sneddon said Currie’s victim no longer lives directly above his client and has moved away.
He said it had been “the last straw”, having called the authorities “about 20 times,” adding: “I can only imagine the flats are not particularly well-built but noise from above travels”.
Currie felt the other man had antagonised him, while he tried to do the right thing.
He had asked Currie to “go outside for a square go” in the past and that, on this occasion, that was the implication.
Sheriff David Hall noted Currie has a fairly recent conviction on indictment for a directly analogous matter and fined him £400
Covid rants
A Kirkcaldy man who subjected an MSP’s member of staff to anti-Covid vaccine rants was told by a sheriff “I’m not sentencing you on your views”. Wayne McIvor approached the woman on a number of occasions in the town centre after he had been banned from the politician’s office for expressing his forthright opinions.
Jailed 10 years
Fife sex offender Scott Tough has been jailed for a decade.
The 48-year-old, of Thornton, Kirkcaldy, was given the ten-year term at the High Court in Glasgow.
He was convicted of raping a woman after seizing her by the neck at addresses in Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes between 2000 and 2019.
He raped a second woman on various occasions in 2019, while she was incapable of giving consent, at another address in Fife.
He further sexually assaulted a third woman while she was incapable of giving consent in 2019 in Fife.
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