A DOCTOR was threatened by a neighbour who claimed that the GP’s dog had injured his cat.
James Sutherland waved a vet’s bill and demanded the alarmed doctor pay the fee by confronting him in his garden. When the doctor asked him to leave, the aggressive 24-year-old told him and his partner that he would smash up their car in revenge. He made threats to the couple on two occasions at their home in Lee Brae, Galashiels, on August 8 and last Friday.
When Sutherland was taken to Galashiels police station and heard the doctor had complained about the threats, he told officers: “That’s it, he is going to get it when I get out.” Sheriff Kevin Drummond highlighted how Sutherland, who is now of no fixed abode, was on a community payback order, deferred sentence and an ASBO (antisocial behaviour order) at the time of the offences.
Sutherland was jailed for four months.