Two people have admitted racially abusing Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf and hurling offensive remarks at other SNP politicians.
At Dundee Sheriff Court on Wednesday, Tracie Currie, 35, and Carl O’Brien, 25, pled guilty to racially abusing Mr Yousaf in the city on February 25.
Court papers detailed how the pair repeatedly made racist remarks about Mr Yousaf and prejudiced comments about religion in the city’s Seagate.
Following this, they directed verbal abuse towards local SNP MSP Shona Robison, who is now Deputy First Minister, and MP Chris Law at the party’s parliamentary office on Old Glamis Road on the same day.
The court papers state O’Brien also repeatedly phoned the Dundee SNP parliamentary office and made offensive remarks the previous day, on February 24.
Nominations for the SNP leadership contest closed that day and Mr Yousaf was one of three candidates.
Currie pled not guilty to resisting arrest and struggling outside a police station on Bell Street in Dundee, as well as being in possession of cocaine, which the Crown accepted.
O’Brien denied a further charge of threatening and abusive behaviour, which was accepted.
Sheriff Alastair Carmichael continued bail on Currie and O’Brien and they will appear in court again on October 3.
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