CURFEW LIFTED FOR HOODLUM’S HOLIDAY

A VIOLENT thug was allowed to go on holiday to Spain after a sheriff lifted his bail conditions.

John Harrison, now 21, was permitted to go despite being due to be sentenced for a string of offences in 2010.

Harrison, of Alyth, Perthshire, was placed on a bail curfew and ordered to stay indoors from 7pm to 7am after he admitted lashing out at police officers who tried to arrest him.

As well as the attack on PCs Iain Scougall and Nichola Forrester, Harrison, left, also admitted another assault and a break-in.

But he appeared at Perth Sheriff Court to ask for removal of the bail curfew condition for a week – so he did not have to cancel the holiday.

Sheriff George Way agreed to remove the condition for seven days.

Harrison said at the time: ‘It’s great that I am going on holiday. It was a good decision to let me go. I am going away to Spain and looking forward to it.

‘I just asked my lawyer if I could be allowed to go away on holiday and he asked the sheriff, who said yes.

‘I don’t see what the problem is with it.’