EX-POLICE officer Thomas Kirsop was back in court last week, when he was found guilty of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards a local primary school headteacher.
Kirsop, 77, of North Ballachulish, had stood in a road way near his home, which is just along from the local school, and had adopted an intimidating and confrontational stance, staring directly at the woman when she arrived at the school for the second day of the new term on August 16 this year.
The woman told the court she had arrived for work on the day in question shortly before 9am and had spotted Kirsop standing on the white line in the middle of the road, diagonally opposite the school, saying: ‘He was pacing up and down and his stance and body language really concerned me. His hands were clenched by his sides and he had adopted a very intimidating and aggressive stance,’ she told Fiscal Depute Robert Weir.