MP Allan helps to collar criminal
Dorans assists morning arrest
A miscreant was caught after the police radar of ex- officer and now MP Allan Dorans kicked in.
The suspicious politician was out in the leafy suburbs of Ayr before dawn while training for a charity kiltwalk.
But he spied a suspicious- looking character lurking near a luxury villa .
The SNP member dialled 999 then followed the man, dressed in a grey hoodie and jogging bottoms.
Allan said: “Once a cop, always a cop. He was very suspicious.”
A quick- thinking MP followed a would- be thief acting suspiciously while waiting for police to arrive.
Allan Dorans, 64, came to the rescue after spotting a man in a plush Ayr garden on Friday morning.
The former police officer was out training for the Kiltwalk when he saw the 36- year- old looking into the window of a property on Doonfoot Road – where houses are valued at just under £ 400k.
He phoned 999 and followed the suspect until police arrived.
Mr Dorans told the Post: “I was out walking at about 6am when I noticed a man acting suspiciously in the garden.
“He was dressed all in grey with a hoody top on and he went up to a caravan which was parked in the drive and started looking in the window.
“Then he went up to the front window of the house and was looking in before going up to the large garden gate and starting shaking it trying to open it.
“At that point I phoned the police. While I was waiting for them the man came out of the garden and began walking away, so I followed him.
“I called 999 again and told the control centre he was now walking down Gearholm Road and I followed him to Culzean Road.
“Just as the police arrived he was climbing over a wooden fence into another garden.
“I’m not sure what he was up to but he looked very suspicious.”
Officers arrested the 36- year- old and took him to Ayr Police Station.
After that they told Mr Dorans that he was out on bail accused of another crime and he had broken his curfew.
The Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock MP added: “Police detained him and have since told me that he was out on bail and shouldn’t have been out of his house between 7pm to 7am.
“I’m a former Detective Inspector and you never lose that eye for it.
“Once a cop, always a cop.”
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that a 36- year- old man was arrested following reports of someone acting suspiciously in the Doonfoot Road area of Ayr on the morning of Friday March 13.
“Enquiries into the matter are ongoing and a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”