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Councillor branded a 'nuisance drunk' by sheriff after pestering another woman on a bus

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iOS - Android Burns, formerly depute leader of South Lanarkshire Council, appeared at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Thursday - his 57th birthday.He was cleared of sexually assaulting the woman by touching her breast and trying to kiss her.But Sheriff Ray Small found him guilty of breach of the peace.The sheriff told Burns, of Larkhall: "You were what might traditionally be called a nuisance drunk."It's everyone's nightmare, particularly a woman's in the present climate, when the only other passenger on the bus touches her uninvited on a number of occasions and invades her personal space with unwanted attention."The woman said she was travelling home from Hamilton to Stonehouse after work about 7.30pm on July 16 last year when Burns accosted.

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