Off-duty cop needed 15 stitches after attack with Buckie bottle

A THUG scarred an off-duty police officer with a Buckfast bottle after a Scotland match.

Michael McLaughlin, 18, assaulted PC Alan Frame outside Glasgow’s Clutha Bar last September. He pleaded guilty yesterday at Glasgow Sheriff Court to the assault to PC Frame’s severe injury.

McLaughlin, who has previous convictions for assault and breach of the peace, also admitted breaching his bail conditions on two separate occasions.

The court heard PC Frame and another off-duty officer had gone to the pub following Scotland’s defeat to Russia.

PC Frame waited for his colleague outside at the end of the night and noticed a group of people had narrowly avoided being hit by a taxi.

The officer told the group to be careful before McLaughlin approached him for “a couple of quid for a taxi”.

PC Frame told McLaughlin that he didn’t have any money which prompted a “discussion” between the pair.

After “staggering backward to the roadway”, he soon returned with a glass Buckfast bottle and struck PC Frame with it. The officer was taken to hospital for treatment where he received 15 stitches and glue to his head.

McLaughlin was traced and charged with assault. A month later, McLaughlin was arrested again after telling officers to “F*** off” and “Am telling you f***ing nothing” following an unrelated incident. He initially resisted arrest and shouted “I’m gonnae f***ing kill yous”.

Sentence was deferred until next month for background reports and McLaughlin was remanded in custody.