Inverness man jailed after trying to climb into woman’s bedroom
Inverness Sheriff Court has heard how a sleeping woman was wakened by her dog barking and found a man trying to climb through her bedroom window.
Fiscal depute David Morton said that the intruder Scott Burns (32), of Murray Terrace, Smithton, was known to her and she managed to push him back out the window after shouting at him to “f*** o**”.
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Burns admitted breaking into the flat in Smithton, and also a charge of entering another home in the area by pulling off a wooden panel covering its broken front door, and failing to comply with his overnight stay-at-home curfew imposed in court previously.
He was jailed for a total of nine months backdated to three weeks ago when he was remanded in custody.
Regarding entering the woman’s flat, Burns’ solicitor told the court his client thought it was a different person’s address where he had left some of his property and which he was trying to recover.
Sheriff Gary Aitken told Burns that it must have been “a particularly frightening incident” for the woman, and that given the nature and number of the charges he didn’t see anything other than a custody sentence being appropriate.
