A man has admitted committing a series of offences including attempting to set a Aberdeen garden alight.
David Youngson appeared at the city’s sheriff court yesterday facing three charges which included assault, dangerous driving and sparking fear and alarm on July 19 this year.
The court heard Youngson had been expecting to see his girlfriend that morning after she had attended a party in the city’s Kettlehills Drive. However when she failed to appear he headed off in his car to find her.
Fiscal depute Anne Macdonald said that as he was driving along the road he was seen by a group of three women who noticed he was revving his engine and driving in a dangerous manner.
She said as a result the women commented on his driving. Miss Macdonald said that they believed Youngson overheard them and at that moment he drove the car directly at them assaulting Lyndsey Hammond by causing her to jump out of the way to avoid being struck.
Youngson, a prisoner in HMP Grampian, then approached the house where the party was being held and repeatedly drove into, and reversed out of, the driveway striking a number of items in the drive and garden.
Miss Macdonald said he then proceeded to get out of the car and was seen to be holding a petrol can.
Youngson, 27, then poured the petrol over the driveway and attempted to light it with a lighter. However he was stopped from causing the fire after his girlfriend appeared and intervened.
Sentence was deferred on Youngson until next month in order for background reports to be carried out.