Woman jailed for throwing microwave from 10th floor

A woman who threw a microwave oven out of a 10th floor flat window in Edinburgh in a "moment of madness" has been jailed for six months.

Lea Farquharson, 42, had argued with her partner before he went out and as he came back into the building she threw the oven in a bid to "scare him".

She admitted culpably and recklessly throwing a microwave oven to the danger of the public on 27 June last year.


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The incident happened at Dunsyre House South, Calder Crescent.

Passing sentence at Edinburgh Sheriff Court, Sheriff James Scott said: "I am satisfied no sentence other than a custodial sentence is appropriate given the gravity of the offence and the potential danger to the public.

"Somebody could have come out of the basement of the block of flats and it could have been disastrous."