A FIFE man has been found guilty of deliberately driving a van into the foyer at Dunfermline police station.

Scott Robertson reversed the vehicle into the building so fast the van’s towbar was embedded in a brick wall.

No one was injured when the Ford Transit slammed through a plate-glass window and shot across a corridor.

Jurors heard Robertson was not happy about the way police had handled a series of complaints he made to them.

At the end of a three-day trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court they took more than an hour to deliver their verdict.

Robertson (35), of Golfdrum Street, who was studying at Carnegie College in Dunfermline, faced charges of:

Driving without insurance in the car park at Dunfermline police station on May 1 last year.

Culpably and recklessly driving a van across a pavement, through a plate-glass window, across a corridor and into an internal wall at the police station.

Resisting arrest by struggling violently with police officers.

The prosecution decided not to pursue a conviction on the first charge after Robertson produced an insurance certificate.

However, the jurors unanimously found him guilty of the other two offences as the case concluded yesterday.

During the trial they heard from a number of officers who were in the station at the time.

It was about 2.25am when they heard an engine being revved, tyres screeching and what sounded like an explosion.

Several rushed outside and Robertson was hauled out of the van, wrestled to the ground and handcuffed.

PC Stuart Gibson was among the first on the scene and helped handcuff the accused. He told the jury, “He was shouting, asking if we knew who he was and said ‘The code is 1,2,3, let me in!’

“He said he owned the police and that everybody that was there was sacked.”

As the accused was being charged with dangerous driving he said, “It wasn’t dangerous... mental maybe, but not dangerous.”

He was then taken to be breathalysed and PC Gibson told him he needed to provide a sample as an accident had occurred.

“He paused and said, ‘It wasn’t an accident.’ ”

He had not been drinking.

PC Gibson said Robertson must have lined the vehicle up before reversing at speed between two metal poles.

Robertson, who defended himself, told the jury he had no recollection of the incident, but insisted it must have been an accident.

He maintained the van had a dodgy gearbox and that must have caused the vehicle to lurch backwards as he tried to park.

He thought he must have been on his way to make a complaint to the police.

Robertson said his life had been hell since he became the victim of a fraud some time ago, and he had been threatened with violence and cars he owned had been vandalised.

He went to the police, but felt nothing had been done about his complaints.

He believed his “rambling” after he was arrested must have been because of a head injury he sustained in the accident.

Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said the crash caused £4000 worth of damage to the police station.

The van struck and damaged a painting that had been lent to the police by the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust.

That, Miss Yousaf added, would cost about £3000 to repair.

Sheriff Craig McSherry told Robertson, “I am going to defer sentence for full reports here.

“I have to advise you that I am considering a custodial sentence.”

He continued the case until next month.

Robertson was remanded in custody.