Violent rage over pack of cigarettes

Apr 28 2009 by Andrew Welsh, Perthshire Advertiser Tuesday

A YOUNG Perth man who flew into a fit of temper in a row over cigarettes was fined £450 at the sheriff court.

David Ogilvie (21), who had been drinking, was at home with a woman on January 23 when the argument suddenly erupted.

“The accused became aggressive and started shouting and swearing,” the depute fiscal told the court.

“When he approached the woman in an aggressive manner she feared he would assault her and retreated into the kitchen behind a table.

“He came in and she ran into the sitting room.”

A female neighbour became concerned when she heard Ogilvie shouting and went round to the scene of the commotion.

“The neighbour heard the sound of broken glass and attended at the rear kitchen door of the premises,” added the fiscal.

“She saw the woman looking frightened within the sitting room and the accused immediately shouted, ‘She f***ing started it, it was over fags. It’s nothing to f***ing do with you, you won’t f***ing calm me down’.

“The neighbour went back to her home to call the police, who attended and saw damage to the kitchen oven.

“They spoke to the accused who replied, ‘I kicked the table and it hit the oven. I didnae mean it’.”

Ogilvie was taken to police headquarters in Perth and charged.

Defence agent Cliff Culley said both his client and the woman had both been drinking prior to the incident, which had been sparked by “a trivial matter”.

Ogilvie, of Newhouse Road, Perth, admitted that on January 23 at Goodlyburn Terrace, Perth, he conducted himself in a disorderly and aggressive manner, shouted, swore, placed others in a state of fear and alarm and committed a breach of the peace.

He was fined £450, to be paid at rate of £10 per week.