Youth alleged to have assaulted boy, 17

A TEENAGER is alleged to have left a 17-year-old boy severely injured by punching and kicking him repeatedly on the head and body.

Lennon Bruce, 18, of Earn Crescent, is alleged to have assaulted the youth to his injury on Spey Drive on November 16 2018.

It is alleged Bruce seized the complainer by his clothing and repeatedly punched and kicked him on the head and body to his severe injury.

Bruce denied the charge and the case against him at Perth Sheriff Court was continued until April.

A MAN and woman have been accused of endangering the life of a woman by stamping on her head several times during an attack on her.

Kerry Ann Bott, 40, and Ian McDougall, 41, are alleged to have left Karen Ogilvie scarred for life as a result of the assault.

They are alleged to have assaulted Ms Ogilvie on Dunkeld Street, Aberfeldy, by repeatedly punching her on the head and body on July 22 2018.

It is alleged the duo knocked her to the ground, pulled her by the hair and repeatedly kicked her head and body before stamping on her.

They are alleged to have repeatedly stamped on her head to her severe injury, permanent impairment, permanent disfigurement and to the danger of her life.

Bott, of Old Crieff Road, and McDougall, of Cluny Crescent, both Aberfeldy, deny the charge and the case against them was continued until May at Perth Sheriff Court.

A FAMILY fear their 70-yearold grandmother could be taken from them at any moment, after being “left in the dark” by the Home Office over her deportation.

Valentyna Yakovleva has called Tayport home for more than a decade, helping raise her grandchildren and living with her naturalised daughter and son-in-law.

Despite her age, health problems and lack of resources, the Home Office intends to send her back to Kharkiv, in north east Ukraine, close to the Russian border, where she has no family.

Her son-in-law, Dr Andrij Sukhodub, said his family have resigned themselves to her being deported, and asked the authorities to at least let her have a Covid vaccine before she is taken away.

“The virus is completely out of