Jailed for struggle with cops

A man has received a jail term for struggling violently with two police officers following a disturbance in Raploch.

Ronald Mitchell had admitted a charge of resisting, obstructing or hindering, two police officers in Mossgiel Avenue on May 26 this year while on bail on another matter.

Fiscal depute Rachel Wallace told Stirling Sheriff Court last Wednesday that police had gone to Hazlebank Gardens in Raploch that day due to an ongoing disturbance there.

Because of 22-year-old Mitchell’s behaviour, she added, officers tried to place him in handcuffs.

When the officers took hold of Mitchell’s hands in an attempt to restrain him, he struggled violently with them.

Mitchell tried to break free from their hold and to push them off, and continued to struggle with them.

Ms Wallace said the officers managed to put Mitchell on the ground where he continued to struggle violently.

Eventually the officers were able to restrain the accused and place him in the rear of a police van before he was taken to Falkirk Police Office.

His solicitor Frazer Mccready told Sheriff Wyllie Robertson that Mitchell had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.

He also pointed out that Mitchell had“a real problem during the lockdown period.”

Sheriff Robertson sentenced Mitchell, whose address was given as Hallpark, Sauchie, to six months’ imprisonment, reduced from nine months.

Two months of the term was attributable to the bail aggravation.