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  • Oct 14, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Danny McKay

    A gang of youths followed a couple along an Aberdeen street before one of the teens attacked the man. Morgan Main was part of a group of drunken teens causing a nuisance on West North Street allegedly throwing stones. When a man and a woman walking along the road objected to their behaviour, the gang began to follow them. Fearing for their safety, the couple went into a nearby gym but the group followed them inside and Main, now 20, repeatedly punched and spat at the man. ‘Do you know who I am?

  • Oct 13, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Danny McKay

    A man left his 86-year-old father-in-law in hospital with a fractured cheek after the pensioner criticised his dinner. Gerard Cunningham rained punches down on his wife’s elderly father after the three of them had shared dinner together at their home on Woodcroft Avenue in Aberdeen. The violence was sparked when the 86-year-old made a comment about the meal and a heated argument broke out. It quickly exploded into violence and Cunningham, 71, repeatedly punched his father-in-law in the face.

  • Oct 10, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Danny McKay

    A racist yob chased a Tesco security guard around the shop while threatening to “boot the black out of” him, a court has been told. John Kissane suddenly became irate when the security guard asked to check the contents of his bag. The 46-year-old made threatening and racial comments towards the employee and began to chase him around the store. When a manager tried to separate them, he was pushed to the side and when police became involved Kissane turned his attention to them.

  • Oct 10, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Danny McKay

    A taxi driver has been banned from the road after knocking a cyclist off his bike outside Marischal Square in Aberdeen. Stephen Bennett, 50, was parked on the pavement at the top of Upperkirkgate after dropping off a fare when he pulled out right in front of the cyclist. The cyclist, Alan McKay, had come round the corner from the Gallowgate and had no time to react as Bennett, who wasn’t indicating, pulled out. He was sent flying over the handlebars and suffered a horrific open fracture to his arm.

  • Oct 9, 2024 | pressandjournal.co.uk | Danny McKay

    A drink-driver with two burst tyres caused other cars to take evasive action, left debris all over the road and struck a pedestrian who tried to stop him. Ian Paterson was more than triple the legal alcohol limit when he was spotted all over the road in Ellon. The 62-year-old’s driving was so bad, repeatedly striking the kerb and crossing onto the wrong side of the road, that a member of the public approached him and tried to stop him.

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