Woman jailed for 21 months after admitting number of offences

A Crieff woman has been jailed for almost two years after she carried out a string of offences in the Strathearn town.

Joanne Mayor admitted a number of charges, including vandalising a car in Banks Crescent in August last year.

The 35-year-old, who has more than 120 previous convictions, also admitted being in a cottage in Academy Road on November 28 last year with intent to rob.

Her latest crime spree included four offences carried out in a single week in April last year.

These included stealing a handbag from a car and taking alcohol from the same wine shop twice in three days.

Proceedings at Perth Sheriff Court had to be temporarily halted yesterday after Mayor took ill in the dock.

The court heard she had been “rattling” recently because she had been unable to get the heroin substitute methadone.

Her solicitor Callum Cox said: “My client hasn’t had her methadone for three days and it is affecting her health.”

Mayor, who has previous convictions for theft, shoplifting, fraud, breaching the peace, wasting police time, reset, driving offences, assault, drugs and housebreaking, was released from prison in November last year.

Her previous offences include buying drugs on her way back from a meeting with her drug counsellor, for which she was jailed for 180 days.

At a previous court appearance, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis had said Mayor was “more familiar” with the criminal justice system than “almost everyone in Scotland.”

She was jailed for a total of 21 months for the most recent offences.