A person accused of sending threatening messages to Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and of abducting a sheriff is to face trial within the New Yr.
William Curtis, and one other man with whom he's accused of the incident involving the sheriff, each beforehand mentioned they don't need authorized illustration.
The 69-year-old instructed the courtroom he would “all the time be legally suggested” when requested by Lord Weir if he had appointed a solicitor, who mentioned he would take that as he had not.
“You're taking that flawed,” Curtis replied, and instructed the choose that the structure meant he had a “proper to defend myself”.
Throughout the listening to on the Excessive Courtroom in Edinburgh on Tuesday, Phillip Michell, 60, the opposite accused man, learn from handwritten notes for about eight minutes earlier than he was stopped from persevering with.
Lord Weir mentioned he was not happy he had appointed a solicitor and appointed Gillian Simpson to the case, the 16-minute listening to was instructed.
He fastened the trial date for January 9 on the Excessive Courtroom in Inverness.
Curtis is accused of behaving in a threatening or abusive method which was “more likely to trigger an affordable individual to undergo worry or alarm” by sending emails and posting messages on social media by which he made threatening remarks in the direction of Scotland’s First Minister on varied events between February 27 and March 6 2019.
He's additional accused of allegedly sending or inflicting a message to be despatched via social media on March 9, 2019 to Stewart Stevenson MSP which threatened him and contained a hyperlink to a video referring to the homicide of the MP Jo Cox.
And Curtis additionally faces two different prices of posting messages of a “threatening and abusive nature” on social media in October 2020 and June 2021.
Curtis and Mitchell are accused of assaulting and abducting a sheriff in a parking lot in Banff, Aberdeenshire, on June 29 2021.
It's alleged they seized Robert McDonald, sheriff of Grampian, Highlands and Islands, at Banff, pulled him to the bottom, sat on high of him and detained him there towards his will.
All of the alleged offences occurred in Aberdeenshire.
Curtis has pleaded not responsible to the costs whereas Mitchell has not but entered a plea.
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