Man selling sunglasses in West End tried to steal woman’s bag

A Dundee drug addict has been jailed for trying to steal a woman’s handbag after she refused to buy designer sunglasses from him.

Aaron De Shafta was hawking Gucci and Prada sunglasses around the West End in the early hours of July 1 in the hope of getting money for drugs.

The 27-year-old approached a woman just after midnight and then again at 4.45am when she was leaving a flat on Peddie Street.

He became irate when she declined to buy his wares for the second time and tried to snatch her bag, leading to a struggle on Blackness Road.

The woman was uninjured and managed to hold on to her bag, with De Shafta eventually walking off.

De Shafta, a prisoner at Perth, has previous convictions and pled guilty to the offence.

He was jailed for 14 months, backdated to July 3.

Meanwhile, in a different case heard at Dundee Sheriff Court yesterday, a clubber admitted biting a fellow teenager’s face during a vicious nightclub assault.

Danielle Gaffar, 19, assaulted Kyra Strachan at the Aura nightclub, South Ward Road, on February 3.

Gaffar, of Tealing Garage House, pled guilty to grabbing Miss Strachan by the hair, forcing her to the ground, striking her head off the ground, putting her arm around her throat and restricting her breathing.

The teenager also pled guilty to biting Miss Strachan on the body and biting her face to her severe injury and permanent disfigurement.

Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Robert Dickson until next Tuesday.