David McPhee
Crime and Court Reporter at The Press and Journal
Crime and court reporter @PressJournal covering Aberdeen and the north-east of Scotland. All opinions are my own. Got a story? Get me at [email protected]
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1 week ago |
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A former criminal lawyer who was caught dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine from her Peterculter country house has been jailed for 18 months. Advocate Amanda Lothian, 65, was convicted of being concerned in the supply of the controlled class B drug from Lower Kennerty Mill in Peterculter during the Covid-19 pandemic. A jury of six women and nine men took less than an hour to find Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict following her trial in April.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A pair who got involved in a vicious crack cocaine-induced baseball bat assault on their neighbour have been warned they are in the “last chance saloon”. Callum Mathieson, 29, and Elizabeth Milne, 31, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where they admitted the assault at a flat in the Northfield area of the city. During a hallway scuffle, Mathieson struck his neighbour across the head with a baseball bat.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A repeat offender who got locked out of his house in his underwear and became violent has been jailed. Lee Fairbairn appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, where he admitted hurling verbal threats to police when they met him on Park Street, Aberdeen, in April this year. Standing in his boxer shorts, the 38-year-old told the two officers he would “burst” them and “put the hit” on them. He then kicked one of them as they tried to get him into a police van.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A man has been placed on the sex offenders register after he sent his social worker a series of “deplorable” sexual text messagesRobert Hutchison, 56, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitted to sending several messages to the woman over a weekend. These started out apparently innocently, as Hutchison discussed wallpaper, but became increasingly distressing. Hutchison has a previous conviction for exposing himself and performing a solo sex act at his window in 2023.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
An Aberdeen thug threatened to “chop off” the private parts of a neighbour who owed his friend money, a court has heard. Lee Davidson appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, where he admitted making blood-curdling threats to the man while standing outside his flat in the Sheddocksley area of the city. Davidson, 39, uttered a series of threats, at one point telling the terrified man that his moneylender friend would “kill him” if he didn’t cough up what he owed.
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