A footballer who broke his opponents jaw during a Sunday league game has been warned he faces jail.

Ross Sinclair, who was playing for Plough Athletic, attacked Josh McHugh of Queen Anne FC during an amateur match at Lochee Park between the sides in September last year.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard that Sinclair brought down Mr McHugh with a late tackle just minutes before the end of the match, with Queen Anne leading 2-1.

Mr McHugh reacted furiously – hurling abuse and becoming aggressive before a scuffle broke out. He was then dragged away before things escalated.

However as he turned his back to walk away, Sinclair ran up from behind and viciously attacked him.

Mr McHugh was left with his jaw broken in two places and had to be fitted with two metal plates and four screws.

He told a jury that he could only eat soup for three months after the attack.

The court was told that the incident prompted the abandonment of the game with a mass brawl then erupting off the pitch.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told the jury: “You may think on some level Mr McHugh deserved a punch.

“You may also think the accused deserved the battering he got from the Queen Anne supporters in the car park later that morning, but that is not the way the law works.

“If someone acts aggressively towards you, even punches you and you respond by running up behind them whilst they are being dragged away and assault them from behind by striking them so hard that you break their jaw then that is not self defence, that is retaliation.”

Sinclair, 20, of Peffers Place, Forfar, denied a charge on indictment of assault to severe injury.

But a jury of eight men and seven women took just an hour to convict him.

Sheriff Alastair Brown deferred sentence until next month for social work background reports and released Sinclair on bail meantime.

He said: “This was a very nasty assault that did substantial damage.

“A custodial sentence running into several years is a very real possibility.”

A woman attacked a mum-to-be after learning that her own boyfriend was the father.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Jennifer McIlravey, 35, assaulted Chantelle Murray after finding out Ms Murray was pregnant to Roderick Cuthbert, 37, who is McIlravey’s boyfriend.

All three had been staying together in a flat on Strathmartine Road after Ms Murray ended a relationship.

Ms Murray was eight to 10 weeks pregnant at the time with Cuthbert’s baby and had told him when she found out.

It is unclear whether McIlravey was aware of this when Ms Murray arrived on January 26.

Fiscal depute Alan Kempton said: “Upon awakening on January 27, the complainer saw blood, which she assumed was to do with her pregnancy. She was advised to get medical attention.

“McIlravey shouted through from the bedroom for a cigarette and Ms Murray said she would get one. McIlravey said, ‘Get out of my face’, jumped out of bed and pushed Ms Murray with both hands.”

Later, Ms Murray experienced further bleeding and asked McIlravey for advice — and told her Cuthbert was the father.

McIlravey “did not respond well” and threatened her with violence. Ms Murray left the home with Cuthbert and attended at Ninewells Hospital.

Doctors recommended she be admitted but Cuthbert insisted on taking her back to the flat — stealing medical supplies, including scalpels, while he was there.

When they returned home, McIlravey again threatened Ms Murray.

The fiscal continued: “On January 28, Ms Murray was slapped four or five times by McIlravey shortly after she got out of bed.

“She was also repeatedly punched on the head and body. Thereafter, on January 30, Ms Murray left the locus — she stood on the bath and sink and squeezed out of a window.”

Police attended and found a bypass in the electricity meter.

Cuthbert admitted threatening behaviour between January 26 and 29, and stealing medical items on January 27.

And he admitted damaging an electricity meter and stealing a quantity of electricity between July 14 last year and January 29 this year.

McIlravey admitted threatening behaviour and assaulting Ms Murray between January 26 and 29. Sentencing was deferred until September 19.

A Dundee amateur footballer has said an opponent who broke his jaw and knocked him out during a pitch rammy shouldn’t be locked up.

Josh McHugh, 22, of Hilltown, was playing for Queen Anne FC in a game at Lochee Park when he was attacked by Ross Sinclair of Plough Athletic.

The former Harris Academy pupil’s attacker could now be facing jail after being found guilty of the assault.

Josh told the Tele how the attack had left him “seething” but revealed he didn’t want the culprit put behind bars.

Describing the moment leading up to the incident, he said: “It had been a fairly normal game.

“I had been speaking to the opposition prior to kick-off and they were really sound guys.

“But during the game things got a bit heated.”

Queen Anne FC were leading 2-1 in the dying seconds of the match when violence erupted.

Josh said: “I had gone in for a tackle with an opponent, but after we got up the guy proceeded to rugby tackle me and there was an altercation.”

Members of both teams separated the two players and Josh thought the matter had been dealt with.

He said: “When I was being ushered away, the other guy must have got away from the guys holding him back .

“He punched me once on the back of my head, knocking me out cold.

“I must have been unconscious for about 15 seconds but when I woke up he was still kicking me.

“I knew right away my jaw was broken because I had broken it three years previously.

“I told the boy I’d broken my jaw and he stopped kicking me.

“I was absolutely seething as I knew the surgical procedures that would follow.”

Josh’s girlfriend, Emine Tastekin, 22, had gone to watch him play for the first time, and the footballer said she had been left deeply upset by what had happened.

He said: “We went up to Ninewells Hospital and I was admitted straight away.

“At this point, I could only speak with my mouth closed but I had loads of things running through my mind.”

Josh — a painter and decorator — had an operation to have metal plates permanently inserted on the inside of his cheeks.

He said: “I could only eat soup and soft foods for the next two months — it was a nightmare.”

Josh, who now plays for Fintry Rovers, added: “I was obviously angry although I don’t want the boy jailed. But I think he needs to be taught a lesson.”

Sinclair, 20, of Peffers Place, Forfar, denied a charge on indictment of assault to severe injury but a jury found him guilty.

Sheriff Alastair Brown deferred sentence until next month for social work background reports and released him on bail.

A man who sexually assaulted a child during a music lesson has been jailed.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Keith Deary was a teenager himself when he assaulted the child he was supposed to be teaching to play music.

Deary, now 46, of Main Street, Guardbridge, committed the offence more than 20 years ago at a public hall in Fife.

Fiscal depute John Adams said Deary was a music teacher for a group when the offence took place.

The fiscal said the complainer had been using a cupboard as a changing room. The complainer had put a kilt over the trousers they were wearing.

But the accused told the child to take the trousers off when trying on the kilt, the court heard.

The complainer took off both the trousers and the kilt, after which the assault took place.

Deary also sexually assaulted the same child on a second occasion. After a Friday evening class Deary asked the complainer to stay behind and said he would give the child a lift home.

As they were driving Deary said he needed to check his aunt’s house, which he had been looking after.

The fiscal said: “Once they got there the complainer sat in the living room and the accused sat beside the child and touched the complainer’s leg and thigh over the complainer’s clothing.”

Deary then proceeded to sexually assault the complainer.

The complainer left and went home. The victim did not tell anyone and the offences only came to light in 2014 when a second complainer reported Deary for an alleged sexual assault.

The first complainer was questioned by the police and confirmed Deary’s actions.

Deary pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual assault of a child at a public hall in Fife.

He previously faced another two charges of sexual assault, which he denied, and was found not guilty by a jury after trial.

Sheriff Simon Collins took a dim view of the fact Deary was in a position of trust.

He said that abuse of trust left no alternative to custody.

Deary was jailed for 163 days and placed on the sex offenders register for seven years.

A Dundee man has admitted stalking four women.

Kieran Dorian, 20, sent hundreds of “intense and obsessive” messages to his victims, who were aged 18 to 21.

The sheriff court heard Dorian, of Hawthorn Grove, even waited outside one lady’s front door until 7am — despite being told to go away.

And he left a love letter on the windscreen of another woman’s car.

Fiscal depute Eilidh Robertson told the court that Dorian had begun stalking his first victim while she was still at school.

The fiscal said: “He repeatedly texted her, saying he had feelings for her, and she repeatedly said she was not interested.”

Dorian continued to text her and posted a love letter through her parents’ door on Valentine’s Day.

He also declared his feelings for a second woman, who said she was not interested.

Despite this, Dorian went to her home on a number of occasions and was told to go away by the woman and her father. He also repeatedly sent her text messages and contacted her via social media.

Dorian’s third victim was a woman he bumped into on a bus.

He did not speak to her at the time but later added her on Facebook and began sending messages. He also left a note on her windscreen when she was in Dundee city centre.

Dorian sent his fourth victim about 50 picture messages one evening, some of which asked to see her in her underwear. She reported this to police and the cases involving the other complainers were discovered.

Dorian admitted four charges of engaging in a course of conduct which caused a woman fear and alarm, at various locations in Dundee, between October 2011 and May 18 last year.

Sentence was deferred until September 19.

A teenager who bit a police officer has been locked up for four months.

Sean Wilson, 18, was sentenced to detention at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting police assault.

The court heard Wilson carried out the savage attack as officers tried to break up a party that “got out of hand”.

Wilson shouted, swore and threatened police as they attempted to clear around 50 people out of a noisy party in a flat on Sandeman Street.

One officer attempted to arrest Wilson for threatening and abusive behaviour but Wilson “became more aggressive” and lashed out.

Fiscal depute Susan Ruta told the court: “The accused stood up and head-butted the constable on the arm as they tried to restrain him.

“The accused forcefully pushed the constable on to the front door and cornered him.

“Another officer attempted to intervene but the accused lunged forward and bit the constable on the right forearm.

“The accused was restrained but managed to get up and head-butted a third officer on the left side of the face.”

The police officer who was bitten will have to undergo six months of testing to ensure he has not caught an infectious disease.

Wilson, a prisoner at HMP YOI Polmont, pleaded guilty to charges of police assault and threatening and abusive behaviour, at Sandeman Street, on May 7.

Two sisters allegedly starved a dog and dumped him in a bin while he was still alive.

Heather and Norma Scott allegedly abandoned the dog — called Dougal — in an industrial waste bin on Dundonald Street.

Dougal was allegedly left with no food or water and unable to escape.

Heather, 58, and Norma, 71, of Court Street, both faced two charges of animal cruelty at Dundee Sheriff Court.

The sisters both pleaded not guilty via letter to the court today, on both charges.

They deny that between March 19 and April 15, at Court Street, while being responsible for an animal, namely a dog called Dougal, they caused the animal unnecessary suffering.

The charge states that they knew or ought to have known that their actions would have caused suffering to the animal.

They allegedly committed the offence by failing to provide adequate nutrition, whereby the dog became emaciated, failing to provide adequate water, whereby the dog became dehydrated, and failing to provide adequate care and treatment for the dog which was suffering from emaciation, dehydration and dental disease. The duo further deny a second charge that between April 14 and 15, at Dundonald Street, while being responsible for the same dog called Dougal, they abandoned the animal without reasonable excuse and in circumstances where it was likely to cause him unnecessary suffering.

They allegedly committed this offence by abandoning Dougal in an industrial waste bin without access to nutrition or water and no means of escape.

Trial is on November 30 with an intermediate diet on November 10.

The women were charged following an investigation by the SSPCA.

DOG owners have been warned to be on their guard, after suspicious late-night activity at a kennel in Angus.

A vehicle pulled into a gamekeeper’s driveway near Inverarity, by Forfar, around 11.30pm on Friday.

The vehicle had a Belgian number plate, and there were reports of around six men inside.

The gamekeeper, who is a member of the Angus Glens Moorland Group, reportedly said that the men were shining the vehicle’s lights at the kennels, he believes with the intention of finding dogs to steal.

Police are now investigating.

The Angus Glens Moorland Group is a collection of rural estates throughout the county, founded in 2015, with members working together to highlight the positive impact the estates have on the local community.

The incident caused outrage on the group’s Facebook page, with several members reporting similar incidents.

One user said: “My grandparents had them at their farm outside Edzell on Friday evening. They took off very quickly when approached. Then seen going into two neighbouring farms and cottages before leaving. Acting very suspiciously.”

Lianne MacLennan, coordinator of Angus Glens Moorland Group, told the Tele: “No one would want anything to happen to their precious dogs, whether family pets or working dogs.

“Our gamekeeper members wouldn’t be able to operate without their highly trained dogs. As well as being much loved, they are important members of their staff.”

A police spokeswoman said: “Police Scotland received a report of concern regarding a vehicle within a driveway at an address near Inverarity, by Forfar, at about 11.35pm on Friday August 19.

“The vehicle is described as being a minibus style van that had a number of male occupants within, and had a Belgian number plate. A search of the area was carried out for the vehicle and inquiries are ongoing.

“Anyone who is concerned about suspicious activity in their area should contact Police Scotland on 101.”

The incident comes just a week after Dundee man Leonard Ormond’s dog Rosco was stolen from outside his home.

The 82-year-old reported seeing a van outside his house shortly before he realised the dog was gone.

Inquiries into Rosco’s disappearance last Monday are ongoing.

A kids’ swimming teacher who was caught with child porn has been ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

Indecent images of children were found at the home of Andrew Gray, 37, who won a gold Olympic medal for swimming in 2007 and now teaches disabled children to swim.

Police found more than 900 images when they raided Gray’s home on Dunmore Gardens, which he shares with his parents.

The images were of children ranging from just a few months to 15 years old and some severe in nature.

Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed told Dundee Sheriff Court that Gray suffers from Asperger’s syndrome but is not on medication.

Police received a warrant to search Gray’s home and when they attended, he stated “Can I ask when this was as I had a problem before”.

His parents then told officers they found images on his mobile phone previously.

The fiscal said: “A search begun and officers were informed that their computer tower was at a repair company, where a hard drive and computer tower were later seized.

“A full examination was carried out and it was discovered that both contained indecent images of children.”

The court heard 183 images were found on this computer and a further 710 images were found on the hard drive.

Of these, 87 images were found to be at the most severe level as rated by police.

Gray admitted taking, permitting to being taken, or making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children, at his home address between march 18 and August 29 last year.

Sheriff Alastair Brown said: “These images are of real children, these things have really happened to them.

“They have been abused and the only reason for that is to provide images for people who want to look at them.

“By viewing them you make the abuse happen.”

The sheriff imposed a community payback order consisting of 150 hours of unpaid work and three years supervision.

He also ordered Gray take part in a Sex Offenders programme and imposed restrictions on his access to the internet.

Gray was also placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years.

A BUNGLING pair of crooks who were caught “orange handed” after breaking into a busy office building have been given community payback orders.

Reece Hunt and Lee Armstrong donned heavy orange gloves to avoid leaving DNA and fingerprints at Dundee’s Figure 8 Consultancy Services.

But the hapless thieves then proceeded to break in while occupants of several neighbouring properties watched on.

Police arrived and Hunt and Armstrong immediately held up their hands and said a stolen laptop computer had been stashed in a rucksack.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Armstrong had previously served time in prison in connection with assault and robbery.

Hunt, 18, of Adamson Court, and Armstrong, 23, of Landsdowne Court, pleaded guilty to breaking into commercial premises in Whitehall Street and stealing a laptop.

George Donnelly, representing Armstrong, said: “I ask the court accepts this was a one off, silly, silly escapade.”

Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC imposed community payback orders on both men — with 80 hours unpaid work for Hunt and 130 hours for Armstrong.

She said: “This is a serious matter.

“Breaking in to any premises is always serious.”

A COUPLE today told how their lives have been turned upside down after being accused of abducting two police officers.

Philip Moreton, 31, and his wife-to-be Cheyrell Davie, 35, walked free from the High Court in Edinburgh after a jury found an allegation that PCs Gail Beattie and Gemma Smith had been abducted at their home near Glen Prosen was not proven.

Today Mr Moreton, an offshore scaffolder, said: “I spent five-and-a-half months in custody and Cheyrell lost her job in HR.

“She was suspended with pay before she was dismissed and my career has been put on hold.

“I was taken away from my family. I missed my son’s first birthday because of this.

“We have a mortgage on another house in Dundee as well, so it was really tough.

“I’ve still got my offshore job, but I can’t go back to that, not now.”

The drama began on March 4 when Ms Davie called police following an argument with her partner, who had moved there from Dundee the previous year.

When two officers tried to detain Mr Moreton he ran off, before returning four hours later.

He claims he then tried to barricade himself in a cupboard (pictured inset) to avoid injury.

PCs Beattie and Smith called for back-up from an armed response unit and, after some negotiations, Mr Moreton gave himself up.

Prosecutors claimed in court that Ms Davie had prevented the officers from leaving their property at Glackburn Farm by locking the doors, but jurors said there was reasonable doubt over that allegation.

The officers also said they had an air rifle pointed at them by Mr Moreton. That charge, too, was found not proven.

Mr Moreton accepted he shouldn’t have run off when police tried to detain him.

He continued: “The whole thing has been awful. I could have been facing seven or eight years in prison and Cheyrell could have been looking at three years if we had been found guilty.

“Where would our kids have gone?”

A woman with HIV caused a child to be pricked with a needle and syringe containing her bodily fluid.

At Dundee Sheriff Court, Jacqueline O’Neil, 33, admitted a charge of culpable and reckless conduct.

She admitted struggling with a child and causing the child to be struck by a needle and syringe containing her bodily fluid, while knowing she had HIV.

O’Neil admitted pushing and pulling a child and causing the needle to puncture the child’s skin, to their injury and to the danger of their health and wellbeing.

The child is now undergoing a series of tests to establish if they have contracted HIV.

O’Neil told the court through her solicitor that she was attempting to take the needle away from the child but the Crown claims she was waving the needle around and the child was struck.

Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed said: “The accused was heavily under the influence of something and she was waving the needle about when it struck the child on the hand.”

Solicitor Gary McIlravey, defending, contested the Crown’s version of events on behalf of O’Neil.

He said: “She accepts there was a struggle and during that at some point the child became pricked by the needle but she doesn’t know when that happened because the child did not say they had been pricked until after she removed her hands.

The court heard the chain of events took place on July 27.

Mr McIlravey said O’Neil  had been sat with drugs next to her.

He added: “The child saw the drugs and took them to the bathroom and disposed of them by flushing them down the toilet.

“The child then went back to the living room and the woman picked up a pillow case with a capped needle inside it.”

Mr McIlravey said the child asked what it was and was handed the needle and a struggle ensued between the child and O’Neil.

O’Neil claims she removed her hands and it was at that point the child said he had been pricked, but the Crown insisted she was waving the needle around rather than trying to take it off the child.

A notional trial was set for September 5 to debate how the child became struck.

A DRIVER impersonated a police officer by wearing a high-visibility jacket and activating blue flashing lights in his car — forcing another motorist to pull over.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard the lighting unit found in Dawid Weclawik’s vehicle was able to perform the same lighting patterns as official police equipment.

Weclawik, 30, of Ancrum Court, appeared suddenly behind another driver on Coupar Angus Road, shortly after midnight, on June 28.

Fiscal depute Alan Kempton told the court the other vehicle was driven by Blair Shaw, 20, who had a passenger.

The fiscal said: “The complainer saw the accused’s vehicle approach behind his vehicle very quickly.

“The accused then travelled very close to the complainer’s car, causing him to slow down and put on hazard lights.

“The complainer then saw blue and red flashing lights illuminated from the accused’s vehicle, which continued to travel closely behind.”

Mr Shaw and his passenger thought it was a police car and Mr Shaw brought his vehicle to a stop. Weclawik pulled his car alongside Mr Shaw’s, then shouted at him but it was “unclear” what was being said.

He then drove off at speed.

Mr Shaw and his passenger were suspicious and contacted police.

They saw Weclawik park his vehicle and challenged him, asking if he was a police officer. Weclawik said he did not speak English and walked off.

Police arrived and found the lighting unit attached to the bottom of Weclawik’s windscreen with suction cups.

He admitted to police that he had installed the lighting unit.

Alexandra Short, defending, told the court Weclawik was wearing a jacket he is required to wear during his work at a chicken factory in Cupar.

Miss Short said: “He says he was agitated by the people driving in front of him and put on the lights to overtake.

“He admits he did know what he was doing and is aware he shouldn’t have done it.”

Weclawik admitted impersonating a police constable with intent to deceive while driving a car on the A923 Coupar Angus Road on June 28.

Sentence was deferred to September 14 and the lighting unit was forfeited.

A man who injected himself with water in a Dundee supermarket then threatened to stab staff with a syringe has been jailed.

Andrew Bryson, 38, was jailed for 22 months at Dundee Sheriff Court.

The court heard Bryson also repeatedly poured hot water over his own head and body during the incident at Lidl, Dura Street.

His bizarre behaviour took place after staff searched him under suspicion of shoplifting.

Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed told the court Bryson was spotted by one staff member acting suspiciously in the alcohol aisle at 4.15pm on May 15.

He was stopped at the front door and told he was being taken to the manager’s office to be searched.

The fiscal said: “The accused became increasingly agitated, particularly when he was informed the police were coming.

“He got up and walked over to a sink and began pouring water over his head.

“He produced a needle and syringe from his pocket, filled it with water and injected himself in the hand with it.”

Bryson then threatened to stab staff members with the needle and threw it, narrowly missing one of them.

He then continued to scald himself with hot water.

Bryson, of Palais Road, admitted a charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, at Lidl, Dura Street, on May 15.

He also admitted stealing a mobile phone from a property on Fleming Gardens West, on April 25.

The court heard he was at a friend’s house socialising and asked to borrow the phone, then walked out with it and failed to return it.

Doug McConnell, defending, said Bryson’s behaviour was due to drugs.

He said: “There are concerns in his behaviour that suggest he was not of sound mind but that was due to the drugs he had taken.”

Sheriff Drummond jailed Bryson for 18 months for the incident in Lidl and four months for the theft of the mobile phone to be served consecutively.

She said: “You have a lengthy record and were only released from prison in April then committed this offence in May.

“I have no option, you are not suitable for a community disposal. The only thing I can do is send you back to jail.”

A manager who embezzled more than £73,000 from a Dundee building firm has been jailed for 12 months.

Jonathan Green, 45, was sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court after admitting embezzling his former employers.

Green was employed as a contract sales manager at Grahams Building Merchants, on Faraday Street, when he committed the fraud.

He told two of the business’s clients to transfer money into a different account, claiming it was to help the firm reach a target.

But the bank details he provided them with were for his own personal account.

Unaware of the scam, the clients transferred a total of £73,386.38.

Fiscal depute Saima Rasheed said: “The first client paid £7,763 into the account and the second client paid £65,623.38 into the same account, which the accused had said belonged to the firm.”

The embezzlement was discovered a year after Green had carried out his fraudulent scheme.

Police were informed and he later admitted the offence, claiming he took the money due to financial difficulties.

Ross Bennett, defending, said: “Around £73,000 was paid into that account but he did not embezzle all of that.

“He would take the payments, and keep around two or three thousand pounds from each payment, then transfer the rest of the money to the business.

“He has paid back around £23,000 – that’s what he embezzled.”

Green, of Bractullo Gardens, Letham, Forfar, admitted that between August 1 2011 and July 27 2012, he embezzled £73,386.38.

Sheriff Drummond said: “I have taken into account that you have paid back what you benefitted.

“However, I still have to look at the amount embezzled and the length of time.

“I have to impose punishment accordingly.”

An angry delivery driver dropped a woman’s Chinese takeaway on the floor then threatened to slap her.

Dundee Sheriff Court heard Bruce McLeod, 44, lost his temper after having trouble finding the woman’s address.

McLeod then punched a police officer on the face and head-butted another officer when they questioned him two weeks later regarding the offence.

Fiscal depute Trina Sinclair told the court the woman received a call from the accused having ordered a Chinese takeaway from Bamboo Express at 6pm on September 4 last year.

A few minutes later he knocked on her door and was immediately aggressive.

McLeod then dropped the takeaway on the floor and threatened to slap her. He threatened her again then left.

McLeod, of Grampian Gardens, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, at Esplanade, Broughty Ferry on September 4 last year.

He also admitted two charges of police assault and another charge of aggressive behaviour at Grampian Gardens on September 17 last year.

He was ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work in the community within a six-month period.

A WOMAN who fraudulently claimed nearly £19,000 in benefits has been given a community order.

At Dundee Sheriff Court, Jeanette Robertson, 32, of the city’s William Street, was ordered to carry out 260 hours of unpaid work within the community.

She was given 12 months to complete the work and also placed on a curfew.

The three-month curfew requires her to stay at her home address between the hours of 7pm and 7am daily.

Robertson admitted fraudulently claiming £18,304.09 worth of housing and council tax benefits to which she was not entitled.

She also admitted claiming £1,000 of income support to which she was not entitled.

Robertson committed the offences between January 2010 and September 2012 by claiming she was living alone, when in fact she lived with her then partner, Steven Peat.

The court heard she was living in difficult family circumstances and that Mr Peat was not there all the time and not paying anything towards the household.

Sheriff Lorna Drummond imposed a community-based disposal due to the exceptional circumstances in Robertson’s case, regarding her home life.

Robertson was warned this was a direct alternative to custody and she could be sent to jail if she failed to comply with the order.

A man has been charged in connection with an alleged sex attack in Dundee city centre.

Police had said they were following “positive lines of inquiry” in an investigation which was launched on Sunday night.

It followed a report that a woman had been sexually assaulted at around 10.30pm on Sunday.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “We can confirm a 36-year-old man has been charged in connection with an alleged sexual assault  in the Seagate area of Dundee on Sunday.

“A report has been sent to the Procurator Fiscal.”

The suspect is expected to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court later today.

Part of the Seagate was cordoned off after the incident was reported on Sunday night.

The following morning, police forensic experts were at the scene.

The incident is alleged to have happened near the Out nightclub, but police said earlier this week that the venue was not connected to the inquiry.

A DUNDEE man allegedly raped a woman and sexually assaulted two other females.

Gigi Ciriblan, 36, of Baffin Street, appeared in private at Dundee sheriff Court.

He made no plea or declaration in relation to four charges on petition.

Ciriblan, is charged with raping a woman at various streets in Dundee, including Wishart Street, Constable Street, Ladywell Avenue and an area of wasteland on Ladywell Avenue, on August 28.

He allegedly followed her, grabbed her by the arms, detained her against her will, and raped her.

He is also charged with punching the same woman on the face, two days later, at Arbroath Road.

Ciriblan is also charged with sexually assaulting a second woman by touching her inappropriately over her clothing, on August 24, at Arbroath Road.

And he is charged with sexually assaulting a third woman, again by touching her inappropriately over her clothing and kissing her on the cheek, also on August 28, at Seagate.

The case was continued for further enquiries and Ciriblan was remanded meantime.

A MAN has been charged with trying to rob a bookmaker’s shop in Dundee.

Police were called following an incident at the Ladbrokes premises at the northern end of Strathmartine Road.

Eyewitnesses spoke of seeing a “large” police presence in the area as the incident unfolded.

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland Tayside Division said: “We can confirm that a 41-year-old man has been charged in connection with an incident at Strathmartine Road, Dundee.

“A report was sent to the procurator fiscal.”

The Tele can reveal a man has now appeared in private before a sheriff at Dundee accused of a string of offences.

James Gorrie is accused of attempted robbery and also of assaulting a taxi driver.

The 41-year-old is further charged with behaving in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause fear or alarm.

He is also accused of being in possession of an offensive weapon during the incident.

The Dundee man is also accused of resisting, obstructing or hindering police officers while carrying out their duty.

Prosecutors say that the suspect also had a controlled drug in his possession.

Gorrie made no plea or declaration to the charges against him.

He has been remanded in custody and the case has been continued for further examination.

A date for his next court appearance has not been set.

A spokeswoman for Ladbrokes said the company was unable to comment on the matter.

People in the vicinity at the time of the incident have told of police units flooding the area.

One man said: “The police were outside on the street for a while.

“There were two police vans and three cars just after 8pm.”

A woman, who did not want to be named, said: “A lot of police were in the area at about 8pm.

“The officers arrived really quickly and were then away from the street pretty sharp.”