A justice of the peace has told a defendant she would have considered admonishing him had he not ‘stood in this court and lied’.
On Monday, at Campbeltown Justice of the Peace Court, Ryan Anderson, 27, of 43 Lady Mary Row, Campbeltown, pleaded not guilty to one charge of possessing class A drug cocaine, on August 2 last year, in Kirk Street. During the hearing two police constables, PC John McGeachy, 42, with seven years’ service and PC Gillian Watson, 36, with three-and-a-half years’ service gave evidence for the prosecution.
PC Watson described how she had been in the passenger seat of a police van at 8.20pm in Kirk Street. PC Watson said: ‘As we were going along I saw Anderson had a small snap closure plastic bag with something blue in it. ‘He saw us, looked panicked and ran off. I formed a suspicion of something such as drugs.’