Public love message was spotted
not by the girl but a police officer

A LOVE-STRUCK teenager decided to declare his affection publicly, by writing a message on a metal pole in a Wick street.
The message, “B loves G”, was seen... but not by the one he had hoped. A chief inspector patrolling his patch caught Brett Webster red handed!
The seventeen-year-old admitted a charge of vandalism at Wick Sheriff Court today. Senior fiscal depute, David Barclay added that the writing on the pole, in Thurso Street, could be easily removed.
Solicitor Morag Stevenson for Webster, of Harrow Terrace, Wick, said she had discussed the incident with her client who would now be seeking an alternative method of conveying is affection, in the future. The accused, a first offender, had offered to clean off the message.
His romantic gesture and Sheriff Andrew Berry were “poles” apart however.
The sheriff said that such “unholy behaviour infuriated, frustrated and distressed everyone”, not least the public who had to pick up the bill for it.
He ordered Webster, of Harrow Terrace, Wick, to carry out 60 hours unpaid community work.