A man left two women frightened and distressed after showing them a graphic sexual image while complaining about a broken sex toy at an Ann Summers store.
Steven Logan, 52, was found guilty of intentionally causing one woman to look at a sexual image and directing sexual verbal communication at another during an incident at the Glasgow Fort branch on March 21, last year.
The court heard Logan initially spoke to a shop assistant about a product he had bought in Edinburgh, claiming it had snapped and showing her a photograph of the damaged item. As they discussed its use, Logan then showed her a different image depicting the toy being used.
The assistant told the court she asked Logan not to show her the image but saw it anyway, describing the experience as inappropriate and unwanted while she was trying to do her job.
A second woman said Logan approached her outside the shop, asked about her purchases and whether she had bought lubricant before showing her the same explicit image and making sleazy comments as he followed her to the car park, including asking if she had a boyfriend. She told the court she felt frightened and very uncomfortable.
Logan denied showing the image to the shop worker but admitted doing so to the second woman, telling the court he had “misjudged the situation”.
Sheriff Shona Gilroy described both women as credible and reliable witnesses, saying Logan’s behaviour was not consensual and amounted to imposing his will on his victims. Sentence was deferred for background reports and Logan was granted bail meantime.
On another day, a pensioner was scammed out of more than £333,000 in a sophisticated bogus bank fraud.
William Thomson, 81, was duped by fraudsters posing as TSB Bank staff who convinced him his account had been compromised in January 2024. He was persuaded to open two new accounts and send the bank cards to a grocery shop in Uddingston run by Mohammed Asif.
The court heard the stolen money was used to buy almost £200,000 worth of Apple products and more than £40,000 of gold bullion.
Asif, 50, pleaded guilty to being involved in an arrangement for the use of criminal property and was remanded in custody pending sentence.
An elderly couple were convicted of what a sheriff described as “unspeakable abuse” against six foster children at their Glasgow home.
Douglas Daniel, 80, and Barbara Daniel, 75, were found guilty of six charges of cruel and unnatural treatment of children between 1986 and 1991 while fostering youngsters aged between four and 14 at a property in Parkhead.
Jurors heard harrowing evidence of children being forced into animal pens, made to stand with aggressive geese, bathed in bird baths and deprived of food. One victim told how she was fed a cow’s tongue intended for pet ferrets, while others recalled being locked in rooms and treated like animals.
Sheriff Louise Arrol KC told the pair the house had been meant to be a place of safety but instead became a “house of horrors”, praising the victims for coming forward decades later.
Sentence was deferred for reports until March and the Daniels, now living in Kent, were allowed bail meantime.
In another case, a doctor was convicted of harassing her GP ex-husband for almost three years.
Roisin Hamilton, 46, was found guilty of engaging in a course of abusive behaviour towards her former partner at his home in Rutherglen between January 2021 and November 2023.
The court heard Hamilton sent a series of threatening and abusive messages, including warnings that she was “coming for what’s mine” and that there was “nowhere to run, nowhere to hide”.
The GP told the court he felt distressed by the messages and eventually compiled a dossier which led to a police investigation.
Sheriff Paul Reid said Hamilton crossed the line despite repeated warnings to stop, describing the evidence of her ex-husband as credible and measured.
