A woman was attacked in an Ayr street and had her cigarettes stolen after a man woke to discover that £150 worth of drugs and a crack pipe were missing, Ayr Sheriff Court heard.
Kevin Coyle, 54, and Stacey Slaven, 45, returned to Ayr Sheriff Court during the past week after previously pleading guilty to assault and robbery. The case was included in a round-up of recent proceedings heard at Ayr and Kilmarnock sheriff courts, as well as the High Court in Glasgow.
What the court heard
The incident involved an attack on the woman in Ayr and the theft of her cigarettes. The source report states that the confrontation followed the discovery that drugs valued at £150 and a crack pipe had been taken.
Coyle and Slaven had already admitted the assault and robbery charges before returning to court. The supplied report does not state the sentence or other outcome from their latest appearance.
Other Ayrshire cases
The wider court round-up also reported that two 21-year-old men, Kieran Lindsay and Marshall Strachan, were each sentenced to a minimum of 18 years in prison for murdering 44-year-old John Taylor on his doorstep in Kilwinning. The pair had been found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow the previous month.
Other cases covered included a Stevenston man awaiting sentence after admitting one charge involving two dogs, a Saltcoats woman jailed after setting fire to a flat in Gladstone Road in 2023, and a North Ayrshire dog due to be euthanised after attacking four people.
The report also covered cases from Kilmarnock Sheriff Court, including a sixth knife-possession conviction resulting in a Saltcoats man being jailed, and the theft of tungsten, cables and carbide from the Irvine workplace of a security guard.
No further details about the next stage of the Ayr assault and robbery case were provided in the supplied report.