VIGILANTE BROTHERS TOOK LAW INTO THEIR OWN HANDS AFTER MUM’S HOME WAS TARGETED BY VANDALS
TWO BROTHERS took the law into their own hands when the living room window of their parents’ home was smashed by vandals.
They tracked down two youngsters they suspected were involved, pulled them out of a shop and took them for a ride in their car.
The incident in Lochore resulted in John and Richard Saunders being charged with abduction and they have now appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.
John, 53, of Kenilworth Terrace and Richard, 50 of Melrose Gardens, both Lochore, admitted that on 30th September at Lochleven Road, Lochore, they assaulted two boys aged 12 and 13.
They seized and pulled them by the body, removed them from a shop, struck one of them on the head and abducted both of them by forcing them into a vehicle and driving them away.
They also removed their mobile phones from them to prevent them calling for assistance and detained them against their will.
Depute fiscal Sarah Smith said that at around 8.30pm “an item was thrown at a living room window, cracking it.”
After this incident, the two boys were tracked down to a Co-op store by the two men, grabbed and taken outside.
They were bundled into the back of a vehicle and driven off with threats being made that they were “going to batter them”.
The depute said that the boys were described as being “terrified” by this stage.
The brothers took their phones, the car stopped and afterwards the boys were told by the men they were “giving them a fright”.
At 9.45pm the mum of one of the boys heard a car pull up outside. John Saunders was pulling her boy by the jumper and told the mum what had happened.
He said that his mum’s window had been smashed and that “it’s been going on for months”, added the depute.
Asked if he had anything to say to the court, John Saunders, who was representing himself, said, “The window wasn’t cracked, it was shattered and smashed.
“I got a call from my parents to say their window had been smashed and as I drove to their house, I saw them (the boys) walking from there towards the Co-op.
“When I went into the house my mum was so upset and I didn’t know what to do.
“I went to look for them and they were in the shop like nothing had happened.”
Saunders said the boys had told them that someone from Cardenden had also been there at the time and so they had gone looking for him at bus stops.
Saunders said, “I realised what I was doing was wrong” and he then took the boys home.
Sheriff Steven Borthwick called for reports and the brothers will return to court for sentencing on 6th June.
