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Nightmare Dundee neighbour breached ASBO and Covid rules with birthday party Updated: April 8, 2021, 11:32 am © Ciaran Shanks/DCT Media Bobby Gibson A nightmare neighbour who breached her anti-social behaviour order by hosting a rowdy 30th birthday party during lockdown has been ordered to perform unpaid work. Bobby Gibson was caught on February 19 with more people in her home in the Whitfield area of Dundee than she was allowed. She is subject to a strict order preventing her from playing lou...

by Ciaran Shanks Updated: February 23, 2021, 6:09 pm © Supplied by Ciaran Shanks/DCT Me Simon Bowes-Lyon The Earl of Strathmore has been jailed for carrying out a violent sex attack on a woman who was staying at his Glamis Castle home. Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Queen’s cousin twice removed, drunkenly groped the woman and pushed her on to a bed after forcing his way into her room at the 16,500-acre estate. His victim repeatedly ordered the 34-year-old, known as “Sam”, to leave the room ...

© Supplied Dundee Sheriff Court. A raging lout who racially abused a father and son who accused him of using a counterfeit note at their shop has been ordered to stay indoors at night. Kevin Spokes threatened to burn down Umar’s Convenience Store on Pitkerro Road before using a racist slur towards Umar and Khezer Hayat. The Ballantrae Road man has been placed on an electronic tag after previously pleading guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court. Spokes’ sentence comes a week after he was fined an...

Lord Glamis, Simon Bowes-Lyon, has been found guilty of drunkenly sexually assaulting a woman at his family home of Glamis Castle in Angus

by Ciaran Shanks and Graham Brown January 8, 2021, 8:44 am Updated: January 8, 2021, 1:39 pm © Supplied Jay Alderslade-Marriot A victim of a drunken Calcutta Cup thug who dodged prison for a string of assaults outside an Angus pub says she is “fuming”. James Alderslade-Marriot had witnessed Scotland’s 13-6 defeat at the hands of England in Edinburgh last February before returning home to Arbroath well under the influence. But after the obnoxious 32-year-old made a nuisance of hims...

© DC Thomson Yasin Okhai appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court. The McDonalds drink-driver was banned from driving and fined. A sweets supplier found almost seven times the drink-drive limit after taking his pranged Porsche to McDonald’s has been fined and banned. Officers watched as Yasin Okhai briefly blocked the entrance to the Camperdown Leisure Park drive-thru on November 15 after performing an awkward manoeuvre in his Porsche 911. The 41-year-old had to be propped up by police as he struggl...