Cases dealt with at Forfar

An Angus man who stole powdered baby milk for a friend has been jailed for four months.

Ian Robertson, formerly of Newton Avenue, Arbroath appeared from custody before Sheriff Derek Reekie, where he admitted stealing the product from Asda, Arbroath, on July 31 and the Co-op in the town’s Arbirlot Road on August 27 last year.

Defence solicitor Billy Rennie said: “It was not for himself, it was for a friend who had fallen on hard times.”

The court heard Robertson is a prisoner at Perth and subject to a sentence of three years and nine months.

Paul Hosie, 32, of Restenneth Drive, Forfar, was placed on a continued high tariff deferred sentence for two months.

He previously admitted offences including shoplifting in Kirriemuir on various occasions in 2016.

Sheriff Reekie told Hosie there were “a number of encouraging features” in his deferred sentence review report.

Keiran Mcdonald, 22, of Wester Tarbrax Farm, Inverarity, Forfar, was placed on a continued low tariff deferred sentence for three months.

Mcdonald previously admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner at his home on April 26 last year, causing fear and alarm to his mother and resisting arrest on the same date.