Teenager admits attacking bus

A teenager went on a rampage and attacked a bus on the day his mother admitted killing his father.

Drew Anderson, 18, carried out the attack shortly after hearing his mother Louise, 36, had confessed to stabbing his father.

She was jailed for six years at the High Court after she admitted killing taxi driver Douglas Anderson by fatally stabbing him in the leg during a row.

Yesterday at Perth Sheriff Court, Drew Anderson admitted damaging a bus by kicking it and throwing rocks at it in Auchterarder on June 15 last year.

He also admitted abducting his pregnant ex-partner and detaining her against her will before pushing and pulling her to her injury.

The court was told that Anderson, from Blackford, Perthshire, had a number of “issues” and would benefit from a long period of psychological treatment.

Solicitor David Holmes, defending, said: “He is capable of giving instructions, but he has a number of complex problems.”

Sheriff William Wood deferred sentence on a number of cases Anderson faces and remanded him in custody.

Anderson admitted abducting and injuring his former partner while she was pregnant on 27 October last year and to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting at her.

He admitted wilfully or recklessly damaging the number 19 bus on June 15 last year – the same day his mother pled guilty to culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh.

Anderson admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner on 26 February 2017 by making offensive remarks to a man in Auchterarder.

Sentence was also deferred on cases from 2015 he had admitted previously, including assaulting PC Joseph Archer by trying to strike him with a metal pole. He admitted injuring PC John McGuire by struggling violently during arrest. He admitted brandishing a hammer in a separate incident.

Louise Anderson told the High Court that she had stabbed her husband during a drunken argument, but claimed that she had not intended to kill him.

She told a police worker: “The kids will never forgive me for killing their father … He wasn’t meant to die”.