A woman with more than 80 previous convictions, who carried out three knifepoint robberies in Forfar against innocent locals, has been jailed for four-and-a-half-years.
“Institutionalised” Nicola Cargill will spend a further 30 months on licence as part of the seven-year extended sentence for the attacks last September, which left one victim with a permanent scar after she was stabbed in the leg.
Cargill was high on a cocktail of temazepam, valium and vodka when she carried out the offences, dressed in an oversized man’s tracksuit and with a woolly hat pulled over her head.
She then hid in a cupboard at a friend’s home before also attempting to stab police officers who came to arrest her after tracking the 27-year-old from CCTV evidence. She was found to have a sharp patio knife and a serrated-edge kitchen knife.
A prisoner at Ratho Hall, Edinburgh, Cargill appeared for sentence before Sheriff Kevin Veal at Forfar having previously admitted an indictment alleging that on September 28 last year, on Dundee Loan, she presented a knife to a woman, demanded money and threatened to stab her.
She also admitted demanding money from a man on nearby Lentlands Road, threatening to stab him, and robbing him of £10 and his bank card.