Thug’s threat to cops

A yob threatened police who had been attending a late-night incident in Stirling city centre

Thomas Hugh Haney had told officers in Friars Street that he would‘lay them out’.

The 36-year-old had appeared at Stirling Sheriff Court last week, from prison via videolink, on a number of charges.

Haney, whose address was given as Springkerse homeless accommodation, admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner in Friars Street on June 27 last year while on bail on another matter.

Fiscal depute Sean Iles told Sheriff Charles Lugton that police officers had been in attendance at Friars Street at 10.25pm due to an unrelated matter.

An intoxicated Haney tried to intervene and was told to move on.

However, this angered Haney and he started to shout and swear in the officers’direction, saying: ‘What have I f ****** done? I’ll do what I f ****** want. I will lay you out.’

Haney was arrested and in reply to caution and charge said:‘what have I done?’

He further admitted a charge, on a separate complaint, of breaching a bail condition forbidding him from approaching his partner or ex-partner at hostel accommodation in Murray Place on April 9 this year.

And on a third complaint, he pleaded guilty to behaving in an aggressive manner at Springkerse homeless accommodation on January 13 this year and behaving aggressively towards his ex-partner at Teith House on March 24 – as well as a charge of possessing heroin at Springkerse on March 21.

Sheriff Lugton noted that Haney had now spent the equivalent of a two-month sentence on remand and admonished him on the charge of approaching his ex partner.

Sentence was deferred until August 9 on the charge of threatening officers in Friars St and he was ordered to appear on that date.

Sheriff Lugton imposed a Community Payback Order on the heroin possession and Springkerse and Teith House threatening behaviour charges. It comprised 18 months’ supervision, to engage with substance misuse services, with a review on August 9.