Independent Perth and Kinross councillor joins Scottish Conservatives The police were alerted and she was traced in the back garden of their Perthshire home.
She was “visibly upset,” depute fiscal Sarah Wilkinson told Perth Sheriff Court.The accused was interviewed and he told officers he had “lost it” and hit his wife, who was 71 at the time.He added: “It’s the first time I have hit a woman and I’m ashamed of it.