A MAN who repeatedly flew a drone over his sister's home during a near year-long stalking campaign has been ordered to do unpaid work.
Allan Pollock, 45, targeted Hazel Burr who lived with her family in Robroyston, Glasgow.
Company director Hazel, 51, clocked the device hovering over her house while she was relaxing in her hot tub.
Her 19-year-old daughter Katie Burr also became "creeped out" when she spotted the drone overhead as she sunbathed in the garden.
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Katie and dad Iain Burr then decided to track where it was coming from - and caught Pollock red-handed.
It emerged Pollock had also been loitering and driving past the Burrs home at different times of the day and night.
He has now been convicted of a charge at Glasgow Sheriff Court of engaging in a course of conduct which put the Burr family in fear and alarm.
Prosecutors stated Pollock, of Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, repeatedly flew a drone device over their property.
He repeatedly attended and loitered within the vicinity of the house as well as acted in an abusive manner towards his sister Hazel.
The charges spanned between November 2019 and October 2020.
Pollock was told to do 240 hours of unpaid work by Sheriff Kevin.
The sheriff said: "The evidence I heard about your behaviour in this case towards members of your family was disturbing.
"I am in no doubt it would have been extremely alarming to them.
"It is behaviour that, having convicted you, at first blemish, merited a custodial sentence.
"Given the passage of time of three years without further incident and given your personal circumstances, I can draw back from custody in this case."
A two-year non-harassment order was also granted restricting Pollock's contact with his victims.
The trial initially heard from engineering student Katie, who has competed in the heptathlon at the UK Athletics Championships.
The teenager stated she first saw the drone in early summer 2020.
Katie said: "When I was sunbathing during lockdown it was flying above my garden."
Fiscal Hazel Kerr asked the witness to further explain the actions of the drone.
Katie replied: "It would hover over the garden - we would see it move a bit.
"We would notice it and tell it to go away and it would fly away.
"Sometimes it was during the day and point down when I was in the hot tub in the garden.
"It would also come at eight or nine at night."
Katie then told how she and her father Iain, 59, followed the drone after spotting it.
She said: "We drove around the corner and we saw someone with the remote control."
Miss Kerr: "Who was it?"
Katie: "My uncle, Allan Pollock."
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