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23-Jan-15, 09:46
Screams after bat man entered house - court told
AN offshore supervisor became alarmed when he saw two men walking up a Wick street with baseball bats.
Colin Smith, 34, told Wick Sheriff Court that one of them, Morgan Stubbings, made his way to the door of a house raised his bat with both hands and brought it down on a glass panel.
Mr Smith said that shortly afterwards, he heard female screams coming from inside the house in Bremner's Walk, Wick. He said he became alarmed and concerned about what might happen next, and told Sheriff Andrew Berry: "I was worried because my kids were out in the street. It's not the type of thing you expect to see in your area on a Saturday afternoon."
Mr Smith, of Shillinghill, Wick, said he immediately went into his house and got his wife to phone for the police. He told the trial he couldn't identify the man with Stubbings.
Stubbings, 16, of 53 Murchison Street and Ross Stewart, 23, of 3A Ashley Court, both Wick, deny behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting and swearing at Debbie MacCann, at her home at 19 Bremner's Walk, Wick, on April 5, last year.
Stubbings also pleads not guilty to smashing a glass panel in the front door of the house.
Co-accused Darren Stewart, 22, of 59 Nicolson Street, Wick, a brother of Ross, denies additional charges of abusing the police, resisting arrest and being in possession of cannabis resin.
The court heard how a group of curious bystanders scattered when a police van, arrived at the scene, blue light flashing.
Police constable Fern Macdonald said that she identified one of them as Darren Stewart, known as 'Doa'.
She said she interviewed a neighbour, Patricia Salim, who said that she saw Ross Stewart in the group of bystanders and heard one of them mention the name ' Doa'.
PC Macdonald said she radioed for reinforcements and gave chase to the fleeing group. Ross Stewart crossed her path, at one point and soon afterwards she observed him trying to hide in the entrance of a house in Murchison Street. Stewart went inside but Constable Macdonald said that when she arrived, a man told her she wasn't getting getting in.
The trial is scheduled to resume on February 5th.
AN offshore supervisor became alarmed when he saw two men walking up a Wick street with baseball bats.
Colin Smith, 34, told Wick Sheriff Court that one of them, Morgan Stubbings, made his way to the door of a house raised his bat with both hands and brought it down on a glass panel.
Mr Smith said that shortly afterwards, he heard female screams coming from inside the house in Bremner's Walk, Wick. He said he became alarmed and concerned about what might happen next, and told Sheriff Andrew Berry: "I was worried because my kids were out in the street. It's not the type of thing you expect to see in your area on a Saturday afternoon."
Mr Smith, of Shillinghill, Wick, said he immediately went into his house and got his wife to phone for the police. He told the trial he couldn't identify the man with Stubbings.
Stubbings, 16, of 53 Murchison Street and Ross Stewart, 23, of 3A Ashley Court, both Wick, deny behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by shouting and swearing at Debbie MacCann, at her home at 19 Bremner's Walk, Wick, on April 5, last year.
Stubbings also pleads not guilty to smashing a glass panel in the front door of the house.
Co-accused Darren Stewart, 22, of 59 Nicolson Street, Wick, a brother of Ross, denies additional charges of abusing the police, resisting arrest and being in possession of cannabis resin.
The court heard how a group of curious bystanders scattered when a police van, arrived at the scene, blue light flashing.
Police constable Fern Macdonald said that she identified one of them as Darren Stewart, known as 'Doa'.
She said she interviewed a neighbour, Patricia Salim, who said that she saw Ross Stewart in the group of bystanders and heard one of them mention the name ' Doa'.
PC Macdonald said she radioed for reinforcements and gave chase to the fleeing group. Ross Stewart crossed her path, at one point and soon afterwards she observed him trying to hide in the entrance of a house in Murchison Street. Stewart went inside but Constable Macdonald said that when she arrived, a man told her she wasn't getting getting in.
The trial is scheduled to resume on February 5th.