A son is facing jail after sending his mum a birthday card wishing her a lovely day breaching a court order.
Joseph Carson was subject to a Non-Harassment Order (NHO) when he sent the card to Jane Carson on her 84th birthday last July.
The 63-year-old has been convicted of breaching the NHO, which was imposed by Paisley Sheriff Court on September 1, 2017, after he continually sent nuisance letters to his mum and her ex-partner Ronald Moreland.
Carson had also previously been convicted of throwing his own urine over Ms Carson, of Erskine, Renfrewshire, and she was so angered by the card she tore it up, reports the Daily Record.
The defendant, however, denied breaking the order, claiming it what invalid as his date of birth had been recorded incorrectly.
He also denied breaking an NHO preventing him from contacting Gayle McMillan, and her husband, Alan McMillan, and went on trial over the claims at Paisley Sheriff Court.
Mrs Carson said: “When I opened the card it said, ‘Hi, mum, hope you’re having a lovely birthday. Your loving son, Joseph.
“I tore it up in two halves. I was very angry.”
She said she also received a letter from him in 2019, addressed to her under her maiden name of Jane Skinner, which made reference to the fact his date of birth was wrong.
She said the letter stated that the date of birth error “renders the [Non-Harassment] Order invalid".
On November 6, 2019, Carson was also made the subject of a ten-year-long NHO in relation to Mr and Mrs McMillan, after hounding them with hate-filled letters for over five years.
Between March 19 and 22 last year in Renfrew, it was claimed Carson put posters up in the local area claiming the McMillans were criminals.
Supermarket worker Mr McMillan also gave evidence, telling the court his wife was making her way to work when she spotted one on a bus stop.
Carson, of Machrihanish, Argyll and Bute, denied he’d done anything wrong, claiming there was a plot to murder his mother, and declined to be present during part of his trial.
Last week, the jury found him guilty of the three charges he faced - breaking the NHO by contacting his mum in 2019 and 2020, and breaking the NHO by contacting the McMillans last year.
Sheriff David Pender called for a psychiatric report to be prepared ahead of sentencing, and adjourned the case until next month for that to be done.
He will also be sentenced for contempt of court, following an incident last month where his trial collapsed after he claimed he was too worried about catching Covid-19 to sit in the dock.
In 2014 at Paisley Sheriff Court, Carson was placed on a Community Payback Order after being convicted of assaulting his mum and Mr Moreland at her home.
He grabbed Mr Moreland, who was 74 at the time, and headbutted him, knocking him to the ground, and threw his urine at him and his mother, who was then aged 77.
