Pensioner pushed to ground during garden confrontation gets £200 compensation
Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.A pensioner, pushed to the ground in a communal garden, is to get £200 compensation, despite regarding the area as “her personal fiefdom.”Lawyer Mike Tavendale told Perth Sheriff Court the 70-year-old was the “author of her own misfortune” after she armed herself with a washing pole and approached John McLeish from behind.He added that in his 30-40 years’ experience of legal work: “I’m surprised something like this has ended up in the sheriff court.“It does appear completely over the top“The way she acted was certainly not faultless.”He urged that his client, 55-year-old McLeish, of Bank Street, Blairgowrie, be admonished on an