Inverness 19-year-old’s Moray offences lead to unpaid work after spell in custody
A 19-year-old has been brought to her senses by the “clang of the prison gates”, a court has heard.
Rebecca Tuthill, appearing from custody at HMP Stirling, was sentenced at Elgin Sheriff Court after spending three weeks on remand.
The teenager, who previously lived in Lossiemouth before movi, Tuthill was handed 15 months of “intensive” social work supervision by Sheriff Robert Frazer as an alternative to custody.
She was sentenced over four seperate cases, which included charges of following and shouting at a 12-year-old girl in Elgin’s St Giles Centre and “seizing hold” of a female police officer’s head in Lossiemouth.
Solicitor Shahid Latif said that Tuthill’s experience behind bars had caused her to reconsider her actions and the importance of engaging with social work.
He argued that Sheriff Frazer should take his client’s age into account and follow the recommendation of a social work report.
Before handing down his verdict, the sheriff said it was “very important indeed” that Tuthill engages with social work going forward and shows she can “change her ways”.
If the young woman appears before the court again, he said that “all bets are off” in terms of sentencing.
“On the next occasion, you will not be sentenced quite so leniently,” he added.
Sheriff Frazer sentenced Tuthill cumulatively in connection with a total of four cases.
The woman, previously of Inchbroom Avenue, Lossiemouth, was found in breach of a curfew on February 5, 2024 when police came to check on her at home.
She was also charged with acting in a “threatening manner” by following a 12-year-old girl and repeatedly shouting at her at Elgin’s St Giles Centre on February 23, 2024.
Later that day, she then acted in a threatening manner to two police officers and shouted abuse at them.
Weeks later, on March 20, 2024, she acted in a “threatening manner” and loitered outside a property in Kingsmills, Elgin.
She was also sentenced over a charge that, on February 18, 2025, she “seized hold” of a female police officer’s head at a property on Inchbroom Avenue, Lossiemouth.
