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 |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A thief who stole an Amazon delivery van and took it for a joyride around Aberdeen has been jailed. Kristopher Simpson, 48, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where he admitted the “opportunistic” van theft outside a student union building in December last year. It was stated that the Amazon driver returned from delivering a parcel to find his van was no longer where he’d parked it.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A top lawyer has been found guilty of dealing nearly £87,000 worth of ketamine from her Peterculter country house. 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. It took a jury of six women and nine men less than an hour to find Lothian guilty by a unanimous verdict.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A man has been jailed for seven years today after he killed an Aberdeen dad with one punch following a drunken brawl outside a city centre pub. Derek Pearson was convicted last month of killing father-of-seven Steven Johnson, who fell and hit his head on the pavement on Carmelite Lane on March 12, 2023. A jury at the High Court in Aberdeen found 47-year-old Pearson guilty by majority of culpable homicide.
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2 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A former top international boxer has been fined after he made a series of threats to a woman in Stonehaven. Commonwealth bronze medal-winner John Docherty appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, where he admitted making threatening remarks to the woman on Thursday afternoon last week. Docherty, 27, was driving through Stonehaven when a woman shouted something at him. He then replied, calling the woman a “rat” and threatening to smash up her phone.
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3 weeks ago |
pressandjournal.co.uk | David McPhee
A Stonehaven man has been placed on the sex offenders register after he groped a woman’s breast outside a pub in a “crass attempt at humour”. Alan Masson, 54, appeared in the dock at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where he admitted touching the woman outside a pub on Exchange Street, Aberdeen.
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