Rotarian receives top award

A BROUGHTY Ferry Rotarian has followed in his late father’s footsteps to win “outstanding commitment” recognition.

John Mee has become the club’s latest Paul Harris Fellow, an award given for long-term dedication to Rotary causes.

Paul Harris, a lawyer in Chicago, was the founder of the Rotary movement in 1905 and the award takes his name.

It is awarded by Rotary International after a member is proposed by a local club.

John was given the fellowship during the Broughty Ferry Rotary Club’s online annual general meeting.

Club president Scott Leslie said: “John has certainly shown outstanding commitment to our Rotary and Broughty Ferry in general and has been a model Rotarian.

“A complete surprise to John, he reminded us that his late father also received the award. Quite a family achievement.”

A CIVIL service executive officer who was jailed for sexually assaulting two women has succeeded in hav i ng h is conv ictions quashed.

Aadam Mohammed, 31, is set to walk free from prison after appeal judges cleared him of the charges.

He was convicted last year of raping and sexually assaulting a woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, at a house in Perth in December 2009.

A jury also heard how Mohammed indecently assaulted another woman in a car in the Perthshire area sometime between October 2009 and October 2010.

He was acquitted of raping a third woman.

Judge Lord Summers handed Mohammed, of Perth, a four year jail term for the offences last year.

Earlier this month, defence solicitor advocate Ann Ogg told a virtual hearing of the Court of Criminal Appeal that the nature of the attacks for which Mohammed was convicted of were so different in nature that the incidents didn’t corroborate each other.

The court heard that if Mohammed had been convicted of raping the third woman then it