Landowner fined £500 after family antiques row

A BITTER landowner, who drove his quad bike at his heiress sister as a dispute over £130,000 of antiques split their family, was fined £500 yesterday for culpable and reckless conduct.

Stewart Cameron, 57, flew into a rage after spotting his sister Catriona Cameron, 59, preparing to ship two containers of antiques and curios from their parents' former country home in Perthshire "to Barbados".

As Ms Cameron waited for lorries to take away the goods from Bows Farm, near Dunblane, Cameron revved his engine in a "mad frenzy" before driving flat out at her and missing her by just "one inch", Stirling Sheriff Court was told.

The court heard that the accused, who thought the antiques were rightfully his, believed his sister was about to take them "to Barbados" and had earlier superglued the padlocks to the containers to stop her getting access.

After a two day trial, Sheriff William Gilchrist found Cameron guilty, saying: "The independent witnesses all agree that you were driving in an aggressive manner… I believe your behaviour was unacceptable and placed her in real danger."