Yob jailed for throwing urine at policeman

An intoxicated yob who threw urine at a cop in a police cell after being arrested in Dunblane was last week jailed for seven months.

William Drummond was initially taken to hospital for head injuries when he was arrested following an outburst at an address in Well Place on May 5 this year.

But after he was discharged police took him to Falkirk Police Office where the attack on the officer occurred.

The 51-year-old, of Charles Place, Dunblane, admitted charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner and assaulting two police officers when he appeared at Stirling Sheriff Court last Wednesday (June 12).

The fiscal depute said two uniformed police officers had been instructed to attend the Well Place address following reports of a man causing a disturbance by shouting and bawling and kicking doors.

When they arrived there they heard shouting from the back garden. Drummond was heard to shout at unknown persons, said the fiscal depute, adding that he had variously stated: ‘I’m going to f ****** stab the b ****** , ‘I’ll f ***** kill yous’ and ‘I’m the devil.’

The fiscal depute said Drummond was warned by police about his behaviour. However, officers then became the target for abuse.

‘Yous will leave me alone or I will f ****** kill you,’ he told them.

Officers arrested Drummond and took him to Forth Valley Royal Hospital for treatment for head injuries.

While there he spat on one of the officers and had a spit hood placed on him.

Drummond was discharged from hospital and taken to Falkirk Police office where he was placed in a cell.

Around 6.15am a male officer opened the cell door. Drummond was seen to have his hand down the toilet holding a polystyrene cup full of a brown-yellow liquid suspected to be urine. The officer told the accused to pour it back down the toilet and Drummond started to do so.

The constable closed the door slighlty leaving a three-inch gap. At that point Drummond lifted up the cup from the toilet and threw the urine at the police officers.

One officer was not struck by the liquid, but a second one was hit on the left side of his face and the left side of his uniform.

Drummond’s agent Frazer McCready told Sheriff Wyllie Robertson police found Drummond heavily intoxicated suffering from a number of injuries a result of which he ended up in hospital.

Mr McCready added: “When I saw him in the cells he was complaining of injuries to his ribs. He had difficulty breathing. Clearly something had happened to him.”

Drummond was intoxicated as a result of consuming alcohol and taking street valium and had no recollection of what had happened to him – or any recollection of the offences.

The accused, said Mr McCready, had been struggling with a heroin addiction and his record included a number of offences consistent with that.

There was also a number of dishonesty offences carried out in Livingston in the early 2000s.

Alcohol had also played a big part in his life. He had been introduced to it at the age of 11 in a household where there was “no boundaries”.

Sentencing Drummond to seven months’ imprisonment – reduced from 10 months due to the timing of his guilty pleas – Sheriff Robertson told him that the court would not tolerate this behaviour towards police officers and no disposal other than a custodial one was appropriate.