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sexually abusing two children attacked a custody officer moments after she was jailed. Samantha Smith, 31, from Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, repeatedly preyed on a boy aged five and a three-year-old girl.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A Blantyre pensioner attacked a disabled man in a supermarket during a row over social distancing.Thomas Dale’s victim suffered a cut to his mouth when he was floored by a punch.Dale, 68, of Wallace Place, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court this week.He admitted assaulting Mark Coyle at Asda in Clydeview Shopping Centre, Blantyre, on May 12.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our personalised newsletter.A Hamilton man was caught with indecent images of children after asking shop staff to transfer photographs on to his new phone.A shocked assistant stumbled across the pictures and reported Stuart Tester to the police.Tester, 52, of Elmbank Crescent, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court today (Tuesday).He admitted possessing a total of 664 indecent images between January 2014 and April 2018.Morag McLintock, prosecuting, said the photos featured girls thought to be aged between two years and 12.They were found on Tester’s phone, a laptop computer and an iPad.Ms McLintock said Tester had asked staff at a phone shop to transfer data from one device to