AN army war veteran is to stand trial after he was alleged to have driven off at high speed while attached by handcuffs to a police sergeant in the car park at Coatbridge police office.
Quincy Williams, 34, was alleged to have behaved in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm by following a car and acting in an aggressive manner.
The offence was alleged to have happened on March 30 last year in Main Street and Whittington Street, Coatbridge.
Airdrie Sheriff Court then heard how it was claimed Williams, from Edinburgh, drove in a culpable and reckless manner with utter disregard for the consequences.
It was said he repeatedly reversed and then drove forward at high speed while handcuffed to a police sergeant standing at the drivers’ door and that the officer was pulled along the side of the vehicle.
Williams was also said to have repeatedly stuck a police car and drove at excessive speed up an embankment and collided with concrete bollards to the danger of two police officers.
Williams denied resisting arrest and struggling violently with police.
Defence lawyer Eddie Kelly told the court that Williams had been in the army and had tours of duty to both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Sheriff Fergus Thomson continued the case until March 10 for further information before setting a date for trial; bail was continued.
