A Buckie man has admitted assaulting his dad with a dog chain, leaving him with a slice across his face.
Ian Stobo appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday to be sentenced having previously admitted making several abusive phone calls to the police – during which he repeatedly called them “numpties”.
And whilst in the dock he further admitted attacking his father at his parent’s home in Port Gordon.
Fiscal depute Alison Wylie said staff at the police call centre had to hang up on most of the non-emergency calls Stobo made on on August 9 and 16 after the 43-year-old started to swear and would not stop shouting.
She said: “He called the call handler a low-life and it went on from there. He suggested the officer was a hard man who was hiding behind the phone.”
The court heard that in another incident shortly after 10pm on September 6, Stobo’s 68-year-old dad told one phone operator he had been attacked with a dog chain after activating his community alarm.
Defence solicitor Stephen Carty said: “The accused was at his parents’ house. Matters became heated and there was a coming together of the pair of them.”
As a result Mr Stobo was taken to Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin, where he needed four stitches for a cut on his face. Both of the accused’s parents were in court yesterday to support him.
Mr Carty said his client becomes frustrated easily and could benefit from anger management.
Stobo, of Netherha Road in Buckie, was placed under supervision for 18 months for both offences.
