A thug who went viral after ignoring lockdown rules and confronting police officers can be exposed as convicted domestic abuser and drug addict Tony Smith.
Lowlife Smith shocked the public across Scotland after brazenly ignoring police orders to go back to his home while bragging he had coronavirus.
The footage - filmed by a resident in a flat overlooking Perth High Street - showed a desperate officer pleading with arrogant Smith to go indoors.
When Smith tells the officer he has Covid-19, the horrified policeman - who has no protective face mask - shouts that he is “killing people”.
Now we can reveal that Smith - who lives near where he was filmed - has a long criminal record for a variety of offences.
He has been jailed numerous times and has previous convictions for domestic abuse offences dating back two decades.
Smith also has assault and drug convictions as well as breaches of court orders and was only released from his latest prison sentence in the last few weeks.
Within the past month, he has appeared at Perth Sheriff Court in connection with the theft of charity cash from an ex-serviceman’s club.
Smith, 37, and co-accused Christopher Anderson, from the city, were charged with robbing a charity tin from the ex-service social club in Perth.
CCTV footage showed the two of them entering the club together and wandering around before entering the bar area while it was unoccupied.
Smith could be seen standing at one end of the bar while Anderson lifted the charity tin from the other and placed it inside his jacket before the pair fled.
Anderson admitted stealing the money but Smith had the charge against him dropped by the Crown as part of a pre-trial plea bargain.
Anderson was ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work and told to undergo social work supervision for two years, including a drug treatment order.
In 2017, it was Smith who provoked the wrath of another sheriff at the same court because of the long and sustained nature of his criminal behaviour.
Sheriff Lindsay Foulis told Smith that society had “had enough of him” and jailed him for threatening his former partner and attempting to force his way into her home.
The court heard Smith had a criminal record dating back to 2006 and by the 2017 charge, he had four previous domestic convictions.
