A man and woman have been charged with attempted murder after a 24-year-old was found seriously injured on a Perth street.
The man was rushed to hospital after being discovered in the city’s Fairfield Avenue in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Two people arrested in connection with the incident appeared on petition at Perth Sheriff Court.
Craig Henderson, 46, and Rachel McKinney, 38, face allegations of assault to severe injury, permanent impairment, danger to life and attempted murder.
They both also face a second charge of assault to injury.
Henderson is further accused of carrying an offensive weapon.
McKinney faces a charge of assaulting a police officer.
The pair, who are from Perth, made no plea during the brief, private hearing before Sheriff Alison McKay.
Henderson was remanded in custody and is expected to make a follow-up appearance at the same court next week.
McKinney was granted bail.
Police Scotland said officers were called to the street at about 2.55am.
The Scottish Ambulance Service confirmed it was dispatched at 3.16am and took one patient to Ninewells Hospital.
Hairdresser jailed
A hairdresser has been jailed for an “appalling” catalogue of domestic abuse against former girlfriends. William Hill bombarded exes with chilling texts and phone calls, held one woman captive in his flat and mocked another about the death of her baby.
Locked in house
A 34-year-old man attacked his wife then locked her and three children in a house in Lochgelly, a court has heard.
Augustin Negru had accused the woman of cheating and called her an explicit name before “grabbing her forcefully by the hair” on April 21 this year, prosecutor Eve McKaig said.
The fiscal depute told the court Negru then locked the woman and children, then aged under 10, in the house and “left in his BMW”.
Ms McKaig continued: “Shortly thereafter, officers arrived and made contact through the letterbox and the children gave a verbal account to police officers at the time”.
Negru was later traced in Kirkcaldy and returned the house keys to police.
He appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court aided by a Romanian interpreter for sentencing after earlier pleading guilty to a domestically-aggravated offence of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner.
Defence lawyer David McLaughlin said it was “probably understating it” to say his client’s social work report is “less than favourable,” with concerns raised about his attitude to the type of offending.
The solicitor said Negru, who is soon due to start a new job with a food supplier, would now be willing to comply with offender supervision which would help reduce the possibility of repeat behaviour and change some of his attitudes.
The court heard Negru’s wife wants him to return home to continue the relationship and is not in favour of a non-harassment order being made.
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane said: “We don’t tolerate domestic abuse and it never ceases to amaze me how forgiving women are when they are assaulted by one person who apparently loves them”.
She gave Negru 160 hours of unpaid work and placed him under offender supervision for one year as part of a community payback order as a direct alternative to prison.
Ripped off farm firms
A businessman has been found guilty of a money spinning scam which saw him defraud and steal agricultural machinery from Forfar firms. Barry Mackland, 50, caused businesses to lose hundreds of thousands of pounds with his dodgy deals.
‘I’m going to change my life, I’m sick of it’
A former prisoner has pledged to change his ways after he was caught on camera attacking a fellow inmate with an iron at HMP Perth.
Kyle Bowes was spotted by a guard chasing after Lee Howard along a landing.
When he caught up, the 33-year-old struck him four times to the head with the iron.
Bowes then agreed to drop the weapon and return to his cell.
He appeared via video link from HMP Glenochil at Perth Sheriff Court and admitted the September 24 2023 assault.
Howard, described as a hostile witness, suffered two 2cm cuts to his head which needed to be glued up but he refused to be photographed or give a statement.
The court heard Bowes had been released from jail but was remanded in connection with the incident in May last year.
Sheriff William Wood jailed him for 12 months but told him he would be out soon on time served.
Bowes told the court: “I’m going to change my life. I’m sick of it.”
Applause as pervert jailed
There was applause from members of the public in court as a high risk paedophile from Dundee was jailed. Shane Reilly groomed young girls and threatened to rape them if they did not send nude images.
Racial slur in neighbour dispute
A Dunfermline woman was caught on camera shouting the words “Polish p**ck” and raising her middle finger outside her neighbour’s flat.
Genna Shields, 26, of Abel Place, appeared at Dunfermline Sheriff Court to plead guilty to a racially-aggravated offence of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting, swearing, making offensive remarks and an offensive gesture, all while in possession of a metal pole, on June 1 this year.
Prosecutor Eve McKaig told the court a man and his partner, both Polish nationals who have lived in Scotland for several years, live close to Shields.
At around 8.45pm the couple heard Shields outside shouting racial slurs in the close and some banging “associated with the metal object”.
The man opened his door to see Shields walking up communal stairs and asked if she had a problem and she told him to “f**k off,” the fiscal said.
The couple viewed CCTV mounted on a front door and the audio captured the phrase “Polish p**k” and “shove it up your a**e”.
Ms McKaig said: “It also showed the accused putting their middle finger up to the camera”.
Defence lawyer Lucy Martin said issues began with her neighbour in late January “in respect of taking her parking space and blocking spaces and watching neighbours, including herself, with cameras around his property”.
The solicitor said Shields described his behaviour to her as “quite intimidating”.
She said unemployed first offender Shields has lived at the address for seven years and never had an issue with neighbours before.
He said Shields had been cleaning her vehicle outside that day and saw the complainer “continuously watching her”.
Ms Martin said her client snapped after a build-up of increased frustration but accepts the behaviour was unacceptable and out of character.
Shields is set to move to a new property and start a new life, the lawyer added.
Sheriff Elizabeth McFarlane deferred sentence for three months for her to be of good behaviour.
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