Woman let girl under 10 drive car through village, court hears

A woman allowed a girl who was under 10 years old to drive a car through a Scottish village, a court has heard.

Sophie-Leigh Gemmell, 32, admitted culpable and reckless conduct after footage emerged of the incident in Crimond, Aberdeenshire.

The young girl was driving the car barefoot and in bad weather on 10 July last year.

At Peterhead Sheriff Court, sentence on Gemmell was deferred for reports until next month.

She admitted culpably and recklessly, and with utter disregard for the consequences, allowing a child to drive a motor vehicle on a public road in poor weather and barefoot.

A video of the incident, which lasted about a minute, was seen on social media.

It showed the child driving in the dark, using the wipers and indicators and peering over the steering wheel.

She has bare feet and music is playing, including by Sugababes in one section.

Gemmell can be heard cheering during the video.

Sentence was deferred by Sheriff Annella Cowan to obtain a criminal justice social work report on Gemmell, who declined to comment as she left court.