Ross-shire labourer who attacked police officer ‘behaved like a drunken idiot’
A Ross-shire labourer who was involved in two drunken disturbances within a week of each other was ordered to carry out 135 hours of unpaid community work.
Sheriff Eilidh Macdonald was told by defence solicitor Rory Gowans that 21-year-old Lewis Burley of Windsor Place, Conon Bridge was "hard-working but was free on a Saturday".
The sheriff responded to Burley by saying: "You will be working even harder now. You behaved like a drunken idiot on two occasions."
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Inverness Sheriff Court heard that the first occasion was at the Belladrum Music Festival on July 29 last year.
Burley admitted behaving aggressively towards police and then head-butting an officer after he was arrested and taken to Burnett Road Police Station in Inverness.
A few days later he was arrested for urinating in the street before again behaving in a threatening manner towards police officers and making threats against them.
Mr Gowans added: "He has quickly learned a lesson that he should not be drinking to excess. In fact he perhaps shouldn’t be drinking at all.
"He doesn't remember a thing about either."
Sheriff Macdonald warned Burley that her sentence was an alternative to custody.
