A farm employee was fined £1000 for hurling sectarian abuse at cops after telling them he’d simply been attacked on a night-out.
Thomas Fairbairn instructed the officers he needed to report being assaulted in Edinburgh’s metropolis centre.
However when the 24-year-old was knowledgeable they had been coping with one other incident, he aimed vile abuse at them.
Fairbairn was arrested after calling them “f****n b*****ds” and “homosexual c***s”.
He appeared on the metropolis’s sheriff courtroom and admitted a cost of threatening or abusive behaviour. The cost was aggravated by prejudice referring to sexual orientation and faith.
Fiscal depute Abbie McKerlie mentioned the cops had arrested one other particular person for an unrelated matter and had them of their police car.
Ms McKerlie mentioned Fairbairn approached the car within the New City’s Hanover Road at round 1.20am and requested to make a report.
The prosecutor mentioned Fairbairn was instructed the officers had been unable to help as a result of particular person they'd in custody.
The courtroom heard Fairbairn made the sectarian and homophobic remarks. He was arrested and brought to St Leonards police station following the incident on September 5 final yr.
Defence agent Joe Mooney mentioned his shopper had lived a “charmed” life and was incomes £30,000-a-year after finding out agriculture in school.
Mr Mooney mentioned Fairbairn was “very a lot in demand within the farming neighborhood” throughout the lambing season and in addition drove lorries.
The solicitor mentioned Fairbairn used the offensive language whereas ingesting and one thing wasn’t “going his method”.
Mr Mooney mentioned Fairbairn had not been severely injured when he was assaulted.
Sheriff Fiona Tait instructed Fairnbairn, of Melrose within the Scottish Borders, that the courtroom took a “dim view of conduct like this in direction of police”. She fined him £1000.
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