Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
Dundee United fan avoids jail
On Monday, a Dundee United supporter who attacked an Aberdeen player during a match was ordered to carry out unpaid work as a direct alternative to jail.
Marc Jackson assaulted Dons midfielder Funso Ojo as he ran towards home supporters to recover the ball when it went out of play.
Jackson, a season ticket holder at Tannadice for 22 years, stood up and used both hands to shove the player backwards, causing him to stumble.
Pervert had folders of indecent images
A north-east pervert who collected more than 900 indecent images of children over a 10-year period has been spared jail.
Christopher Wakefield, 62, had the images filed in organised folders and duplicated across multiple devices at his Boddam home, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
Fiscal depute Lucy Simpson said police received intelligence that Wakefield was in possession of indecent images of children and so carried out a search warrant of his home on March 2 last year.
“Several electronic devices were seized and examined,” she said.
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Our reporters have been sitting in courtrooms across the north and north-east this week and covered a wide variety of cases.
Dundee United fan avoids jail
On Monday, a Dundee United supporter who attacked an Aberdeen player during a match was ordered to carry out unpaid work as a direct alternative to jail.
Marc Jackson assaulted Dons midfielder Funso Ojo as he ran towards home supporters to recover the ball when it went out of play.
Jackson, a season ticket holder at Tannadice for 22 years, stood up and used both hands to shove the player backwards, causing him to stumble.
Pervert had folders of indecent images
A north-east pervert who collected more than 900 indecent images of children over a 10-year period has been spared jail.
Christopher Wakefield, 62, had the images filed in organised folders and duplicated across multiple devices at his Boddam home, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
Fiscal depute Lucy Simpson said police received intelligence that Wakefield was in possession of indecent images of children and so carried out a search warrant of his home on March 2 last year.
“Several electronic devices were seized and examined,” she said.
Man was coke dealer for pals
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