Farmer charged with stalking owner of dog-walking business amid sheep-worrying concerns
A 51-year-old woman's been charged with stalking the owner of a dog-walking business in the Borders and repeatedly threatening to shoot the animals in his care.
It follows concerns over sheep-worrying in the area.
Mandy Grierson, whose address was given as Cloich Farm, Peebles, is alleged to have engaged in a course of conduct which caused the man fear and alarm, in respect of his business, by repeatedly making insulting and derogatory remarks about him and toward him.
She's also accused of repeatedly following him and making posts to social media sites which suggested he had failed to operate his business properly; and obstructed him from using a path by loading it with unsecured logs - which, it's claimed, she had no authority to do.
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The offence is alleged to have been committed at Cloich Forest, Peebles, and elsewhere, between April 3rd and August 25th last year.
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Grierson has also been charged with exposing the man to danger at Cloich Farm on June 12th last year, by driving a tractor carrying an insecure tree trunk in a culpable or reckless manner, whereby the loader and its load is alleged to have passed over the top of the man's van.
Grierson denied both charges when she appeared in the dock at Selkirk Sheriff Court on Monday, and a trial date was set for April 30th.
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