Rolandus Skuja, (40), from Kirn was given a supervision order for 12 months, 200 hours of community service and ordered to pay 1,000 in compensation to his victim, all as a direct alternative to custody.
On December 30, 2025 at a property in Dunoon he assaulted a woman and threatened to rip her ear from her head. Skuja attempted to seize the woman by the ear and caused her medical stitching to break and ripped the ear from her head in part and caused her skin to tear all to her severe injury.
Michael Bryce, (34), from Dunoon was fined 300. Between February 2 and February 3 at a property in Bullwood Road, being a person subject to the notifications requirement of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, Bryce failed without reasonable excuse to comply with the notification requirements to notify the police within three days of a change of home address.
Katie Smith, (33), from Dunoon was given a community payback order and a supervision requirement fro 12 months as a direct alternative to custody. Between December 14, 2025 and January 3, 2026 at a property in Dunoon, Smith behaved in a threatening and abusive manner where she repeatedly sent messages and voice recordings to an individual shouted, swore, acted in an aggressive manner repeatedly uttered offensive remarks and threats of violence and attended the persons home address uninvited. Smith on a separate charge also received a restriction of liberty order, (house arrest), for 10 weeks from 9pm to 7am.
Alexander Boylan, (28), from Dunoon was sentenced to prison for two months at Dunoon Sheriff Court last week.
On April 6 at a property in Dunoon having been given an undertaking to appear at Dunoon Sheriff Court on June 14 and being subject to the condition not to approach or contact a certain individual in any way Boylan failed to comply with said condition. Then having been granted bail on April 7, Boylan without reasonable excuse again failed to comply with said condition.
Natalie Callaghan, (31), from Rothesay, was disqualified from driving for 12 months and fined 400. On November 21, 2025 on Alexandra Parade, Dunoon, she drove a car with a 742 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine in her blood.The specified limit for the substance is 50 microgrammes per litre of blood.
