Former drug smuggler is jailed again

Aconvicted Fife heroin smuggler is back behind bars after a string of domestic offences, including abusing his partner when she came to visit him in prison.

Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court heard that Lee Robb’s girlfriend was told not to come back by two prison officers who saw her crying after an attack.

Robb, formerly of Leslie, was found guilty of a campaign of abusive behaviour spanning more than eight years following a four-day trial.

The 38-year-old was jailed for three years and banned from seeing the two ex-partners he abused for five years.

He was convicted of – between September 2010 and early 2011 – attacking his then partner in a vehicle in Leslie, leaving her injured.

He assaulted her again on the A922, near Kinross, this time striking her on the head with a bag containing food. The trial heard he was threatening and abusive towards the woman between October 2010 and 2013.

During this time, he sent her a letter containing threats.

He also sent her a photograph on which threats and offensive comments were written.

Robb also abused a second victim while he was in a relationship with her.

Between September and December in 2011, he assaulted her by seizing and pulling her hair at a property in Glenrothes.

On various occasions over that winter period, Robb assaulted her by repeatedly punching her and seizing her by the hand and squeezing, as well as seizing her arms, all to her injury.

Jurors agreed by majority that Robb shouted and swore at her on various occasions over an eightand-a-half year period.

Jurors agreed, by majority, that he assaulted the woman in the visitor room in HMP Kilmarnock on various occasions between January 2015 and

July 2016. While he was serving time at the Ayrshire prison, Robb was found to have pinched the woman on the body and pulled her hair.

The woman told the trial that people stopped her after visits at the jail and asked her why she kept coming to see him.

“People used to ask me on the way out,” she said.

“On one occasion I was extremely upset and I was crying and two prison officers said to me ‘don’t come back’.”

Sheriff Elizabeth Mcfarlane jailed HMP Perth inmate Robb for three years.

She backdated his sentence to March 2021 and banned him from contacting either victim for five years.

After a High Court trial Robb was jailed for nine years in March 2013 for his role in a heroin supply scam instigated by businessman Alan Croston.

Later in 2013, Robb was forced to forfeit £25,660 after a proceeds of crime hearing.