Drug Addict Shoots Child!

A young boy, aged 12, was shot in the stomach by a junkie “drug addict” using an air gun.

The incident, which took place on January the 28th in Stanley, Perthshire, was due to the valium/ diazepam loaded addict disliking the “noise” the youngster was making on his toy motorbike.

Steven Urquhart, who is 22, was jailed for an extremely lenient short sentence of just 9months!

Sheriff Robert McCreadie said the junkies’ behaviour was “extraordinary” and that Urquhart had committed a “wicked” offence which could have had disastrous consequences.

No kidding Sherlock!

At Perth Sheriff Court, Sheriff McCreadie said: “It is a serious matter to discharge a weapon at a 12-year-old boy not knowing where that pellet would end up.

“He should not be using drugs and then carrying an airgun which he recklessly discharged at a 12-year-old boy. It was extraordinary behaviour.

“This was apparently committed after you had taken a substantial amount of valium. Whether you were aware of what you were doing is debatable.

“Who knows what part of the body pellets might have hit. You could easily have hit his face with potentially very serious consequences. Your actions were clearly wicked.”

Another Imported Sex Fiend!

A foreign male “carer” that was working at a nursing home in Edinburgh carried out a sick, twisted sexual assault 76 year old elderly female patient as the pensioner clung onto her Zimmer frame.

The elderly victim later informed another employee that Joseph Sinja had “done things her husband wouldn’t do”.

Sinja a 32 year old Kenyan national admitted carrying out the attack on April 26th 2009 when he appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh.

This monstrous attacker will be sentenced at a later date, but the Kenyan national was warned that he could be deported – but I very much doubt it!

We have great admiration for this brave lady that was able to speak up about this vile, sexual assault and hope she is doing well.

N.B. News in brief is a compilation of articles which in no way are associated with each other and are intended to inform the reader.

In one of the most sickening cases of animal abuse I have heard of, this says a lot about the sick and broken society we find ourselves living in.

A young couple from Gilmerton village in Edinburgh discovered their young cat named Willow had gone missing from their home on the 6th of June.

The young Willow had never ventured further than the neighbours garden so when it got to around 8pm they began to get concerned as to his whereabouts as this was not a usual pattern of behaviour for their pet.

Willow was found ten days later, curled up on a roadside in Penicuik, whimpering for help.

Willow had been dragged seven miles from his home and suffered a broken front and back leg. Not only did this happen, but once the young moggy had been found a full ten days later, the vet had at first thought that Willow had been involved in a traffic accident but, after an x-ray, it became clear that something more sinister had happened.

Willow had not only suffered two broken legs, he was also pinned down and shot with an air gun as it was discovered he had 11 pellets lodged inside him. It has been reported that one pellet was only three centimetres from his brain and could have proved fatal.

His owner, Ms Divine, said, “He usually comes home before 8pm, so when he didn’t return we went out and had a bit of a look around the neighbourhood.”

“I got a phone call at work from Lamond Veterinary Clinic in Livingston to say that the SSPCA had brought him in as a suspected road accident.”

“The X-rays showed that he had been shot with some kind of air rifle, mostly on his chest and neck, and he had a broken front and back leg.”

She added, “When I saw him in the intensive care unit, he tried to walk towards me and that was absolutely heartbreaking to see him trying to move when I knew how badly he was hurt. He was really skinny as well and didn’t look like he had eaten anything in the last ten days or so.

Ms Devine went on to say, “This was not someone who shot one bullet – this was someone who stood over him and repeatedly reloaded a rifle, and that’s hard to comprehend.”

Young Willow’s injuries are so horrendous he is unable to stand and won’t be home until next week!

Harry Haworth, a vet of 30 years experience said, “the shooting was one of the worst acts of cruelty he had ever encountered.”

He said: “There’s no way that Willow could have walked so far from home in Gilmerton all the way to Penicuik on his first time outside the house.

“He was reported missing for ten days and we believe he was taken in a car and shot some time before we found him, because the wounds were scabbing over.

“He must have been in agonising pain and is lucky to be alive – he has certainly used up one of his nine lives now.”

The inhumane “Fiend” that shot Willow had fired from such close range that his bones in two legs were shattered. The vets at the practice were considering amputating his front leg due to the severity of the fracture.

He underwent crucial surgery at the Livingston clinic yesterday and the vet managed to save his front leg by inserting a pin – a procedure that was also carried out on his back leg.

But Ms Divine added: “There’s still the possibility that the pinning won’t work, and if so, he might still lose his front leg.”

According to the Scottish SPCA, gun attacks on cats are on the rise!

The SSPCA has also appealed to the public for help in tracking down the culprit. We also send out this appeal as we are extremely disgusted with this sort of crime especially when, as a Nation, we claim to be a “Nation of animal lovers.”