Pensioners deny using scissors to threaten people at hotel

Two pensioners face a series of charges including threatening violence to three people while in possession of scissors.

Robert Fergus, 72, and Ruth Fergus, 69, both of Troon, deny behaving in a threatening and abusive manner to the three people at MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel, Loch Rannoch, on February 4.

The married couple also deny smashing glass pane doors within the same hotel on the same date and causing extensive damage to computer services and phone lines by cutting cables.

In addition, they pled not guilty to a charge that they had a sharply pointed blade, namely scissors, in a public place.

Ruth Fergus also denies seizing a man by the face.

Robert Fergus denies driving a car with excess alcohol – 43 mics – on the B846 Kinloch Rannoch to Tummel Bridge Road, near to Tummel Bridge.

At Perth Sheriff Court yesterday, solicitor Pauline Cullerton, defending, asked the court for more time to prepare for the case stating further information was required from her clients’ doctor.

The intermediate diet was continued until August 31. Barbara Cameron, 47, of Dunbeath Drive, Glenrothes, had sentence deferred until September 29.

She admits that on May 5 on High Street, Perth, she assaulted a woman by spitting at her and also admits spitting in a police officer’s face. Connor Hobson, 21, of Alexandra Street, Perth, will stand trial on September 4.

He denies a charge that he drove with excess alcohol – 87 mics – in the car park of the Queen’s Hotel, Perth.