Ross man told day care women he had killed
A ROSS-SHIRE man alarmed two women at a day centre by telling them he had killed a man they knew, a court heard today (Thursday).
Now Peter Stewart (56), from Muir of Ord, will be spending Christmas in jail after the Sheriff at Inverness told him the public deserved to be protected from his drunken behaviour.
Stewart, of Corrie Gardens, had earlier admitted on July 19 at the Homeless Day Centre at Waterloo Place, Inverness, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause alarm by telling two women a man they knew was dead and that he had killed him.
Sheriff William Taylor had given Stewart a chance and deferred sentence on him. But at Inverness Sheriff Court today it was heard that Stewart had gone on to commit another disturbance at Raigmore Hospital.
He admitted on November 23, at the Accident and Emergency Unit at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, conducting himself in a disorderly manner, brandishing a walking stick and committing a breach of the peace.
In addition he admitted that, later the same day on a journey to Burnett Road Police Station in a police car, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, threatening to knock out two police officers and lashing out and attempting to strike the driver of the vehicle.
Defence agent William Young asked for sentence to be deferred to allow Stewart the opportunity to address a problem he had with alcohol.
But Sheriff Taylor said he had trusted Stewart only for him to go on to create a scene in a hospital which had left two women terribly upset.
"You have let the court down by committing another offence," said the Sheriff.
"The public deserves to be protected from you when you are drunk because you alarm people."
He jailed Stewart for four months backdated to November 23.