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Updated: 20/04/2021, 6:38 pm
Edita Butkeviciute in hospital after the incident in December 2019.
A woman left with horrific injuries after two men dropped a sofa from a rooftop has told how she is in pain “every day” – more than a year on.
Edita Butkeviciute, 31, was badly injured after the incident in Aberdeen in December 2019.
Offshore worker Barrie Law, 27, and Lee Morrison, 33, admitted acting culpably and recklessly after the case called before Sheriff Philip Mann at Aberdeen Sheriff Court today.
Fiscal depute Felicity Merson accepted a reduced charge of the two men culpably and recklessly “dropping” a sofa from a rooftop at Nailco Nail Bar on 409 Union Street, rather than the initial accusation of “throwing” it.
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A jilted lover torched his ex’s car after she kicked him out of her house.
Scott Innes set fire to her car, leaving it written off and also causing damage to the house, because he felt “used”.
The 41-year-old was branded “incredibly stupid” and “childish” by Sheriff Philip Mann, who ordered him to pay his ex compensation as part of his punishment.
Fiscal depute Christy Ward told Aberdeen Sheriff Court: “The accused and the woman had been in a relationship for approximately eight months.