A 42-year-old man broke down a bedroom door after his partner had barricaded it with a pole, then pretended he had thrown her cat and phone out of a window.
Stuart McInally‘s claim was deliberately designed to get the woman to leave the room, Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard.
McInally, of Moir Court, Kelty, pled guilty to a domestically-aggravated charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at his home address on May 4 this year.
Fiscal depute Annie MacDonald told the court the woman was leaving McInally and he began shouting abuse at her.
She retreated to a bedroom and placed a metal pole over the door to barricade it against a bed.
The fiscal said McInally “repeatedly kicked and punched at the door” to break it down.
“While in the room, he informed (the woman) he had thrown her cat and her mobile out of the window. This resulted in them beginning to argue again.
“During this time he handed (the woman) her phone and informed her that her cat was still outside”.
The woman later contacted police and left the property to look for her cat.
Defence lawyer Stephen Morrison said McInally’s false cat claim was “deliberately designed” to get her to leave the property but was not something he would ever contemplate doing.
He said he understands the couple continue to live together.
McInally was given 80 hours unpaid work and put him on offender supervision for nine months.
Rapist jailed
Rapist Fraser Barclay, 25, who preyed on two university students in Dundee during a catalogue of sexual offending and abusive behaviour was jailed for eight-and-a-half years. He committed his first rape when he was 18 after the woman fell asleep and was incapable of consenting and subjected a second student to a prolonged period of violent abuse.
Driving death trial fixed
A trial has been fixed for a man accused of killing a 93-year-old woman in Broughty Ferry through careless driving.
Gordon Telford, 36, is accused of failing to indicate while turning right in his pick-up vehicle on Gray Street on February 24 2024.
It is alleged he failed to maintain proper road observation and failed to give way to pedestrian Sheila Nicoll, who was crossing a road he was turning into.
Telford is accused of causing his car to collide with Ms Nicoll, walking with a wheeled zimmer frame, whereby she was so severely injured she died.
Telford, of Forfar Road in Dundee, pled not guilty when the case called for a first diet at Dundee Sheriff Court.
A trial, which will be held at Forfar Sheriff Court, was scheduled for September.
Drug-fuelled attack
A Perth takeaway boss has been convicted of sexually assaulting a “vulnerable” woman in her home, before bombarding her with a series of chilling text messages and threats. Salar Rashid forced himself on his victim, as she tried to fight him off, in a traumatic attack fuelled by ketamine and vodka.
Shepherd can’t pull wool over police eyes
A drink-driving shepherd failed in his bid to pull the wool over police officers’ eyes by hiding from them in an Angus golf course’s car park.
Police were driving towards Cameron Simpson on the B966 at 1.45am on June 8 this year when he pulled off the main road and into Edzell Golf Course car park.
With their suspicions aroused, the officers followed the 21-year-old into the car park and watched him get out his car, unsteady on his feet.
Simpson, of Beech Wynd in Kirriemuir, slurred his speech as he spoke and failed a roadside breath test.
Simpson admitted driving with excess alcohol (78mics/ 22) at Forfar Sheriff Court.
His solicitor David Duncan said: “He is a shepherd and has responsibility for a fairly substantial estate in the glen near Kirriemuir.
“He had been at an event and had driven there with the expressed intention of leaving his vehicle and taking advantage of a lift home.
“The lift home fell through, he went back to his vehicle to charge his phone and sat there for a period of time.
“He ultimately made a crude calculation in his head about where he might be in terms of the scale of sobriety.
“He made the foolish decision to drive home and he was intercepted by police.”
Sheriff Mark Thorley banned Simpson from driving for 14 months and fined him £520 altogether.
He said: “I accept this is a one-off. I have to disqualify you. The reading is not just over the limit.”
Move to Fife prompted perversion
A 54-year-old downloaded hundreds of child sexual abuse photos after his health took a “turn for the worse” and he moved from the US to his elderly parents’ home in Fife. Craig Scotland appeared for sentencing after pleading guilty to two offences.
Police at petrol pump
A drink-driver seen struggling to use a petrol pump at 1.50am on New Year’s Day has been banned from driving for three years and given 150 hours of unpaid work.
Fish factory worker Ramesh Niure, 24, of Carson Place, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court for sentencing after earlier pleading guilty to drink-driving and a racially-aggravated charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
On January 1 this year at a Shell petrol station in Admiralty Road, Rosyth, he drove a car with excess alcohol (61mics/22) in his system and shouted, swore and used offensive language.
Prosecutor Annie MacDonald told the court Niure and a passenger appeared intoxicated to witnesses, “stumbling round the forecourt and struggling to understand how to fill the vehicle up”.
The driver was described as “acting strangely” and making attempts to hide his face by putting their hood up.
Police were contacted and blocked the front of the car.
Officers noted the vehicle smelled of cannabis and Niure – who became abusive after being arrested – smelled of alcohol.
Among the phrases he used were “suck my d**k,” “baldy ba***rds” and “f***ing nig**rs”.
Defence lawyer Lucy Martin said Niure is employed full-time as a team leader at a fish factory.
Sheriff Krista Johnston told Niure: “You are gathering a record for repeating the same kind of offending, which is a concern to the court”.
As well as the ban and unpaid work, she put him on offender supervision for a year and made a requirement for him to complete the road traffic group programme, as part of a community payback order.
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