IT was an accident waiting to happen: a mobile phone with the distinctive ringtone of a Guns N' Roses song, and the setting of a Scottish court room, that bastion of quiet and decorum.
What nobody expected when Sweet Child O' Mine decisively interrupted proceedings at Dunfermline Sheriff Court this week was that the culprit should be the sheriff himself. In a textbook case of shamefaced apology, Craig McSherry reached for his phone and switched it off. "Sorry," he said.
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