Man struggled with police outside Inverness takeaway
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A crowd of on-lookers outside an Inverness takeaway watched as police grappled with a 23 year old man as they tried to place him in the back of their van.
Inverness Sheriff Court was told that officers had cause to arrest Patrick Stewart of Longman Caravan Park, Inverness on October 3 this year.
Fiscal depute Naomi Duffy-Welsh said: "He refused to release a vape he was holding, tensed his arms and tried to move away from the officers.
"He pushed away with his legs as they tried to place him in the back of the police van and leg restraints had to be applied. He again used his legs to try and avoid going into the van."
Stewart admitted resisting arrest and sentence had previously been deferred for a background report.
Defence solicitor Brent Lockie conceded: "It does not make good reading. His offending has been underpinned by substance misuse. Everything else has been tried other than a drug treatment and testing order."
But Sheriff Gordon Fleetwood dismissed that option. He said: "Due to your record, there is no alternative to a prison sentence."
He jailed Stewart for five months backdated to October 4.
