A DUNOON man who was facing a total of 21 charges was remanded in custody last week pending his jury trial in February.
Kenneth Craig, (35) appeared at Dunoon Sheriff Court last Thursday afternoon flanked by two prisoner custody officers.
Mr Craig sat in the dock while his solicitor informed Sheriff Mundell that there was a ‘fairly significant indictment’ involving her client but following discussions it was agreed that the only matters which would go to trial would be four, which her client disputed.
In total Mr Craig tendered a plea of guilty to six charges, and a plea of not guilty to four charges, his additional pleas of not guilty for the remaining 11 charges were accepted by the crown that afternoon.
A trial diet was assigned for the four charges Mr Craig disputed and addressing him from the bench Sheriff Mundell confirmed that he had pled guilty to the following charges; that on March 9 he assaulted a police constable in Dunoon by spitting on him, on the same day in Cowal Place, Dunoon he spat at a paramedic who was treating him for an injury and behaved in a racially aggravated manner by uttering racist remarks towards the paramedic, on the same day at Cowal Community Hospital he had acted in a racially aggravated manner towards two police officers and a doctor by shouting racial, homophobic and disability remarks towards them, again on the same day at the hospital he had behaved in a threatening and abusive manner by threatening medical staff and their families by ‘providing specialist knowledge’ that he had about them and did the same towards police officers who were in attendance and that he also head butted a female police officer to her injury.
Mr Craig’s sentence was deferred until after his jury trial which was scheduled for February 3 and his custody was extended until then.
