Ex-surgeon in buttocks-flash rage at family

Aformer surgeon has admitted flashing at a family staying in the Airbnb next door to his home during a bitter planning dispute.

Sixty-year-old Christopher William Oliver appeared in the dock at Dundee Sheriff Court after acting on his planning grievance in bizarre fashion last summer.

Fiscal depute Carol Doherty explained there had been a dispute, which had been taken up with Fife Council, between Oliver and his next door neighbour in George Street, Cellardyke. The argument centred on the legality of a balcony at the house, let out as an Airbnb.

On July 7, Nicola Woolfries, her partner and mother were staying at the seaside property next to Oliver’s home. A child was also staying there.

Ms Doherty said: “At around 7.45pm, Ms Woolfries, her partner and mother returned to the property and went out on to the new balcony.

“At the time, the accused was in his garden at the rear of his home, along with his wife.

“Upon seeing them, the accused began to remonstrate, saying ‘have a look at this and you won’t come back’ and made his way towards them.

“At this point Ms Woolfries noticed that the accused had his shorts around his ankles and was exposing himself.

“Ms Woolfries shouted to the accused to pull his trousers up and the accused replied that they should not be staying there and it was all the owner’s fault he was acting that way.”

The fiscal depute added that Oliver was told there was a child within the property but he turned around to show his buttocks.

The child came out to see what the commotion was but had to be kept inside to avoid seeing the partially naked accused.

The court heard a member of the public on the beach below could hear Oliver ranting and could also see he was exposing himself.

Police were called and Oliver was cautioned and charged.

He told officers: “I did expose myself to them but I wasn’t doing it intentionally or in an aggressive manner.”

His agent Mark Stewart QC told the court Oliver had always maintained he did not expose himself in a sexual manner, something prosecutors reflected in the amended charge to which he pled guilty.

Oliver admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner, which was likely to cause any reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm, in that he shouted and exposed his genitals and buttocks.

He will be sentenced at Dundee Sheriff Court on June 1.

He has previously told how he had to give up his job as an emergency trauma surgeon after losing sensation in his hands as a result of diabetes.

Oliver then took up a new career as a music promoter.

DISPUTE: Christopher William Oliver flashed to a family.