Sheriff tells Highland man who spat at police he seems to have ‘habit of being nasty to officers’
ByReporter
Inverness Castle
A Wester Ross fishermen who spat at police officers who had arrested him on suspicion of assaulting the woman he was with will be sentenced next month.
Jack Maclean, 26, of Royal Park, Ullapool was convicted after trial of police assault on the Friar’s Bridge on March 31 last year.
He was also awaiting sentence on two other offences of resisting arrest and behaving in a threatening manner in Baron Taylor’s Street, Inverness on October 14.
He denied spitting at the constables, telling Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood that he was annoyed at being arrested when he hadn’t assaulted the girl he was with.
PC Alexander Mackenzie and PC Jonathon Stowe told the trial that it was not accidental but a deliberate targeted attack.
Convicting Maclean, who was represented by solicitor Alison Foggo, the Sheriff told him: “You seem to make a habit of being nasty to police officers. I will call for a background report to see if there is an alternative to custody.”
