Girl went on rampage over missing mobile

Apr 9 2009

A TEENAGE girl ran amok in a Motherwell house, smashing windows with chairs and throwing paint over furniture, when she found out her mobile phone had gone missing.

Kerry Glencross left the trail of destruction at a house in Dinmont Crescent on December 17 last year, after a drinking session

The fiscal depute told Hamilton Sheriff Court on Tuesday that the 17-year-old had been out for a Christmas lunch with pals on the day of the incident.

She went back to the home of one of the group for a drink and fell asleep, he added.

When Glencross awoke at around 8.45pm and found that her mobile phone wasn’t there, she threw a tantrum.

The depute fiscal explained: “She began to scream and shout and accused the other person there of stealing her mobile phone.

“She then lifted a portable television and attempted to throw it out of the window. However, she missed and dropped it.”

The accused then lifted a dining room chair in a bedroom and threw it towards the bedroom window, causing the window to smash, with the chair landing outside.

Glencross then picked up pots of paint and began to throw them around.

The depute fiscal added: “She picked up another chair and threw it at the living room window, causing this to smash as well.

“She then went into the kitchen and began to throw cutlery around the room.

“She was forcibly removed by the other person present at this time and did not go willingly.”

Glencross admitted a charge of recklessly destroying or damaging property belonging to another without reasonable excuse when she appeared at court on Tuesday.

A not guilty plea to breach of the peace was accepted by the Crown.

Her solicitor Andy Brophy told Sheriff Joyce Powrie that Glencross, who lives in Glasgow, had been drinking and her phone had disappeared.

Deferring sentence until April 28 for a full range of reports, and to ascertain the cost of the rampage, Sheriff Powrie said: “This behaviour over a phone is just ridiculous.”