A Scottish Premiership footballer has admitted kicking a police officer - his third conviction for police assault. Dundee midfielder Paul McGowan, 27, was arrested after an incident at a house in his home town of Airdrie in the early hours of 23 November 2014.At Airdrie Sheriff Court, he admitted behaving in a threatening manner and assaulting PC Jamie White. Sentence was deferred and his bail continued. McGowan was given a community sentence last year for an attack on police. The latest attack happened after McGowan was arrested at a house in Airdrie's Wheatholm Street, less than 24 hours after he had played in Dundee's 2-1 defeat by Celtic at Celtic Park. He also pled guilty to assaulting PC White by kicking him on the body at Coatbridge Police Office.McGowan also admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm. The midfielder, who began his career with Celtic and also played for St Mirren, pled not guilty to another charge of resisting arrest and struggling with five other officers - a plea that was accepted by the Crown. Sheriff Janice Scott deferred sentence on McGowan until next month and continued his bail.The sheriff told McGowan: "You have a bit of a recent history and I will be calling for reports for sheriffs to consider sentence." Last year, McGowan was given a non-custodial sentence for assaulting two police officers. The then St Mirren player admitted kicking the two officers on the body in Airdrie and at Coatbridge police office on 11 August 2013. He was told to carry out 130 hours of unpaid work and given a one-year supervision order.
One assault could be put down as an accident, three strikes and you're out. Unless he does a "Gerard" he should be banged up like any other ****.
Multiple attempts at battering cops and members of the public - "we'll give you another chance" Sing the Billy boys - 4 months in the pokey. Welcome to Salmond's Papal Socialist Republic.
Don't worry, Leigh Griffiths will almost certainly get 4 months for singing a racist song too http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/celtic-striker-leigh-griffiths-court-5355192
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/watch-two-thrill-seekers-risk-5364399 Yas. Beale's mates Scan & Scooter on top non-stop
Oh aye, I can see that happening... Celtic and its BHEASTLY followers are allowed to abuse all and sundry, racially, religiously and anally and never brought to book! watp no surrender
he should get life ... a boxer who punches a ***** down the pub gets a heavier sentence because his training deems his fists as deadly weapons. So basically a footballer who kicks someone should get a heavier sentence. p.s. I once kicked a boxer , but I got disqualified as I was a boxer too in a match but the **** was relentless so I gave him an old volley. true **** story sis
naw cos bruce is deid and tupac, biggie and the ghost of bob marley with his lovely bones already gang raped mr lee's ghost
Nae danger cos Big Daddy and Randy "Macho Man"Savage are Bruce's hawners and they wid pure batter any Rap artist apart fea mibbe Soulja Slim who wis actually a pure mental ex green beret. Plus Bob wis never much of a fighter. That's why he left Jamaica. Desmond Dekker used to slap him aboot and take his ganja aff him. Bob was that much of a pussy he was refused entry into the band the gaylads.
