Perthshire Advertiser

Man (50) denies catalogue of charges

- Court Reporter

A Bridge of Earn man has denied a catalogue of charges, including three of making offensive or inappropri­ate sexual comments to three different women.

Fifty-year-old Gavin Munro is set to face trial at Perth Sheriff Court on January 23.

A continued intermedia­te hearing will take place on Thursday this week.

The accused, whose address was given on one set of court papers as West Cottage, Elliothead Farm, Bridge of Earn, faces six charges, including threatenin­g violence to a teenager and repeatedly pulling at the arms and headrest of a wheelchair while a woman was sitting on it.

It is alleged that between March 1 and 31, 2014, at a house in Bridge of Earn, he made the inappropri­ate comments to the first female.

A second charge, involving a different woman, is said to have happened at the same property on November 16, 2014.

A third charge, involving yet another female, is alleged to have taken place at the same house on various occasions between December 1, 2010, and November 16, 2014.

Mr Munro also pled not guilty to repeatedly punching a teenage man on the head and body in that house and pinning him against a car bonnet, all to his injury.

A fifth charge alleges that on November 16, 2014, again at the house in Bridge of Earn, he acted in an aggressive manner, shouted and swore and threatened violence towards the same teen.

He is then said to have repeatedly pulled at the wheelchair and refused to leave the house when asked to do so.

A sixth charge alleges that at the same location - and again on November 16 - he wilfully or recklessly damaged the property by repeatedly punching walls, doors and light fittings.

A second complaint alleges that Mr Munro shouted and swore in The Green Room, Canal Crescent, Perth, on June 19 last year, uttered threats of violence, gesticulat­ed and brandished a bar stool.

He is than said to have issued challenges to fight and sent abusive and threatenin­g text messages to a man (19) and another person.

His address was given on that complaint as Seal’s Bank Bridge Cottage, Bridge of Earn.

His bail has been continued meantime, with special conditions banning him from approachin­g or contacting any of the alleged victims meantime.

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