Here is our monthly round-up of criminals sentenced at Edinburgh's courts last month. Edinburgh’s courts dished out sentences in February for crimes including sexual assaults, fraud and downloading child sex abuse images.
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00:00 Hi I'm Edinburgh Evening News reporter Kevin Quinn and today we're taking a
00:04 look back at the criminals who were sentenced in Edinburgh's courts in
00:08 February. Retired High Court advocate John Mayer downloaded more than 500
00:13 pictures depicting the sexual abuse of children of some victims as young as 12
00:17 months old. He attempted to hide his depravity by deleting the images. The
00:22 former lawyer denied the offences but was found guilty by a jury and was jailed
00:27 for 12 months and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years when he
00:31 was sentenced on February the 13th. 38 year old property executive Anika
00:37 Allen used the bank card belonging to her close friend to pay for a deposit on
00:41 a brand new Mercedes as well as using the woman's account to pay for several
00:45 hotel stays. She pled guilty in January and on February the 13th the court was
00:50 told that Allen had paid all the cash back to her former friend. Sheriff
00:54 McCormack sentenced her to a community payback order as punishment where she
00:58 will have to complete 135 hours of unpaid work. Teaching assistant Mariam
01:04 Abassi was speeding on the wrong side of the road before she careered into a
01:07 garden wall and then embedded the front of her vehicle into a family home in
01:11 Edinburgh in April 2021. Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told the crash may have
01:16 been caused due to the mother of two losing consciousness as she had been
01:19 fasting during Ramadan at the time. At sentencing on February the 14th Abassi
01:24 had eight penalty points placed on her driving license and was fined a total of
01:29 £715. 35 year old John Gerrard from West of
01:33 Hales has been found guilty of groping two women. He grabbed one young woman
01:37 from behind before grinding his groin into her while the pair worked together
01:41 at an Edinburgh Friends show in 2018. He also intentionally touched the bottom of
01:45 a duty manager as he squeezed past a woman behind the bar at a popular
01:50 capital restaurant in 2021. On February the 19th he was placed on the sex
01:55 offenders register for two years and told he must carry out 250 hours of
01:59 unpaid work in the community. So that's all for our look back at the criminal
02:04 sentenced in Edinburgh's courts last month. Join us again in about a month's
02:08 time to look back at criminal sentenced in the courts in March.