Policeforcedinto emergencystop

A police car had to make an emergency stop on after a man, apprehended after a drunken bust-up with his long-time partner, tried to escape by opening one of the doors.

Forty-four-year-old Steven Bryson was being driven to Perth after his girlfriend flagged down the police vehicle which had been travelling behind them.

She had switched on her hazard warning lights and waved them down on the A9 around 20 miles north of Pitlochry.

She asked that he be“removed” from her vehicle, depute fiscal Carol Whyte told Perth Sheriff Court.

They obliged and he was put in the back of the vehicle.

But as they head south, he attempted to open the door, forcing the emergency stop.

Bryson was told by Sheriff Gillian Wade on Wednesday:“This was a serious offence.

“It was a matter of luck, to some extent, no-one was seriously injured - and that is wholly unacceptable.”

Bryson was ordered to complete 65 hours of unpaid work within the next three months as a direct alternative to a jail term.

He admitted shouting and swearing at his partner Adele Boa during the course of a car journey on the A9 on April 4 - and then attempting to open the door of the moving police vehicle.

A solicitor for the accused, of Carronside Street, Falkirk, said:“He accepts he had been drinking during the course of the day and an argument blew up out of all proportion.”