Forfar assault man pleads with sheriff to send him to jail

A Forfar man who admitted assaulting a woman asked to be sent to jail.

Kevin James Smith, 21, of Glenmoy Terrace, appeared at the town’s sheriff court after admitting a breach of a community payback order.

His solicitor Billy Rennie admitted that the social work report about Smith was not positive.

Mr Rennie said his client had requested that “the matter be concluded by imprisonment”.

The community payback order sentence related to Smith assaulting a woman at his home address in December 2014.

He grabbed the woman by the body, pushed her on to a bed, placed his hands around her throat and pulled her by the hair before repeatedly punching her on the head to her injury.

Mr Rennie said: “He recognises that this order is just too much for him to cope with.

“He means no disrespect to the social work department. He is just not in a condition where he can see this order to its conclusion.”

Visiting sheriff Marion McDonald remanded Smith in custody for one week so that the sheriff who heard the facts of the original assault case could make a final sentence.

She added: “It’s an unusual request.”

Ross Brown, 29, of Lordburn Place, Forfar, was sentenced to a 12month community payback order.

Brown previously admitted that on February 9 this year he sent a series of messages to a woman that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.

The messages included a threat of “making her life hell”.

Sheriff McDonald said there would be a supervision requirement to the community payback order .

She added that a review of the order would take place in three months with the case to call again on October 27.

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