A man who bit police officers during a street battle is behind bars.
David Baillie, 31, admitted brawling with cops in Kirkconnel’s Needle Street on October 3 this year when he appeared at Dumfries Sheriff Court by videolink from the town’s prison.
He was charged with three offences following the bust up.
Baillie, described in court as a prisoner, struggled with police officers, repeatedly threatened them with violence, shouted, swore and repeatedly referred to them in derogatory terms.
He also confessed that on the same day and place, he assaulted a sergeant by struggling with her, biting her on the body and pushing her over causing her to strike her head on the ground.
And Baillie further admitted biting a policeman on his body to his injury on the same day and location.
His lawyer, Gavin Orr, told the court: “At the time of this latest offending, he was at a concert of a band in Kirkconnel and had been drinking.
“The police arrested him at two minutes to one in the morning when he was very drunk.
“Mr Baillie has always had a difficult relationship with the police.
“What they wanted to arrest him about on that occasion was in relation to a potential breach of a football banning order which has not seen the light of day yet.
“The police chose to do so at two minutes to one in the morning and unfortunately he reacted very badly. He only had fleeting memories of what happened. But he does remember being shouted at.
“He’s very ashamed of himself. The last time he was in prison he was 19 and now he is 31”
Mr Orr added: “He was very obviously drunk when he has bitten the two officers and pushed the sergeant who received a nasty injury to the back of her head. In the context of his record he knows custody is inevitable.
“The difficulty with Mr Baillie is if he gets very intoxicated. He can react violently, so he is very anxious to address that.”
He was told his sentence had been discounted from 18 months for his guilty pleas.
