Bill Kermode: Last News

A jilted man who had been drinking heavily took out a hatchet when his ex-partner tried to collect her things from his house in Pitlochry.

A drunk driver fled the scene of an accident he caused which saw the main road into a Kinross-shire village blocked then gave police a false name when they caught up with him.

A man who stole a Perth widow’s wedding ring during a brazen daylight raid has been jailed.

A teenager made chilling murder threats as he walked around a housing estate swinging an axe around his head.

A motorist pulled over for running a red light was found to have a stash of cannabis "the size of a football" sitting on her passenger seat.

Perth Sheriff Court.

Perth -bound train.

Perth hotel was taken by ambulance to PRI after an alcohol-fuelled attack by a complete stranger.The violent and unprovoked confrontation took place in a corridor at the Holiday Inn Express in the city’s Dunkeld Road.Christopher Miller was left bleeding from wounds to his left cheek and eyebrow, Perth Sheriff Court heard.Perth Prison drone phone dropper awaits sentenceHe had four stitches inserted under local anaesthetic to a two-and-a-half centimetre laceration to his eyebrow.“He also had bruising to his left cheekbone but X-rays showed there was no fracture,” stated depute fiscal Bill Kermode.“He was discharged and advised to take painkillers.”Thirty-three year-old Brian Watt was ordered to pay the victim £750 compensation following the

Perthshire village shortly after 5am. And because of James Brown’s “large stature and highly aggressive demeanour,” further units were requested to attend.