McDonald’s pair in city centre ban over claims

TWO people accused of being involved in a fracas in a McDonald’s restaurant in Dundee have been banned from the city centre by a sheriff.

Daryll Lee Cruickshanks, 20, of Emmock Woods Grove, was arrested after claims he had assaulted three people — including the duty manager — at McDonald’s in Reform Street.

He appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court and denied the charges.

Cruickshanks and a 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named f or legal reasons, are also accused of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and threatening violence i n the restaurant.

The girl allegedly carried out the offence while on bail.

The pair were released on bail after pleading not guilty to all the allegations, on condition that they did not approach or enter the restaurant until the conclusion of their trial on November 21.

However, they were hauled back to court after going to the restaurant around 8pm on Friday — just hours after their release.

The court heard that Cruickshanks and the girl visited McDonald’s to retrieve items from the restaurant’s lost property office.

Having admitted breaching their bail conditions, the pair have now been banned from entering the city centre — bounded by the Marketgait inner ring road — by Sheriff Lorna Drummond until the conclusion of their trial.

Cruickshanks is accused of assaulting shift manager Fraser Madden by punching him on the head and striking him on the head with his head, throwing a chair at him and kicking him on the body, all to his injury.

He is also accused of assaulting Alastair Ramsay by punching him on the head and pushing him on the body, to his injury.

A third charge alleges that Cruickshanks assaulted Shannon Richardson by punching her on the head, to her injury.

The incidents are alleged to have happened in the early hours of Friday morning, starting inside the restaurant and spilling out on to the street before police officers arrived.