Moray Courts – Man kept returning like a ‘homing pigeon’ despite court ban
A man repeatedly returned like a ‘homing pigeon’ to Buckie despite a court order to stay away.
On May 1 last year Christopher Walker began shouting incoherently at neighbours also living on the town’s Well Road. Elgin Sheriff Court heard that the 34-year-old, who was at an upstairs window, then pulled his trousers down, exposing his penis through the frosted glass.
The day afterwards, on May 2, Walker interrupted a get-together being held in a garden on Milton Drive, just around the corner from his Buckie home.
Walker repeatedly pushed a woman, causing her to fall to the ground, then punched her once on the head.
The police took him into custody that evening. When interviewed by officers, he claimed to have been pushed himself by members of the woman’s family.
Walker appeared in court on May 3 and was granted bail, but then breached it by returning to Milton Drive.
He breached his bail again on August 3, when he was spotted on Milton Drive using the cash machine at the Scotmid store.
The woman who he’d assaulted in the garden took a photograph of him on her phone, at which point Walker came over and punched her in the face.
Walker, whose new address was given in court papers as Imlach Way, Lossiemouth, admitted all these offences.
Defence solicitor Grant Daglish conceded that his client had “kept going back like a homing pigeon”.
However, stating that Walker was now receiving the correct medication for his epilepsy, Mr Daglish added: “It seems to have got through to him that he can’t keep breaching his bail.”
In addition, Mr Daglish pointed out that his client had exposed himself inadvertently.
Walker also pleaded guilty to an additional charge of shoplifting a bottle of wine from the Co-op at Faroes Court, Lossiemouth, on May 15.
Sheriff Olga Pasportnikov took into account that he had already spent a total of 32 days on remand for his various offences.
Passing sentence she ordered him to remain indoors at home between 7pm and 7am for the next 121 days.
