Gun-toting pants sniffer jailed for a year over his 'sordid' act

Published on Saturday 22 August 2009 11:13

A GUN-TOTING drunk who demanded a teenage girl's pants so he could sniff them has been jailed for a year.

Karim Bourouba, 29, subjected the 16-year-old girl to the ordeal after downing two bottles of champagne and half a bottle of vodka before stumbling upon the girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend as they camped on Calton Hill.

The pair handed over the girl's pants to Bourouba – who was carrying an imitation handgun he had bought from the internet – before watching as he sniffed them.

Bourouba then forced the couple on a walk around Edinburgh looking for cigarettes. After they managed to get away from him they reported the incident to police, who raided Bourouba's home and found the fake gun.

Yesterday, he was jailed for 12 months at Edinburgh Sheriff Court after a jury had found him guilty of a breach of the peace as well as firearms offences on 22 May last year.

Bourouba, of William Street, Edinburgh, was also placed on the sex offenders register for ten years.

Sheriff Deirdre MacNeill said the "sordid" behaviour of the IT worker was deserving of custody.