A thug who tried to roll a whisky barrel downstairs in a nightclub filled with customers, spat at one police officer and tried to perform a martial arts act on another, has been jailed for more than a year.
Kevin Lobban, 25, of Craigmore Street, also made homophobic and threatening comments towards other officers and their families and assaulted his ex-partner, another woman and another man.
Sheriff Lorna Drummond told Lobban they were very serious offences and also revoked his current community payback order, which he had breached by failing to comply with social workers.
Lobban was jailed for a total of 14 months and 15 weeks.
On one night in the Rendezvous nightclub on October 13 2017, Lobban’s rampage saw him approach and contact his ex-partner Alex Purvey, in breach of his bail condition, before assaulting her.
He then attacked Brodie Purvey and Andrew Scrimgeour before grabbing a whisky barrel and trying to hurl it downstairs to the danger of customers and staff in the club.
He struggled violently with police when arrested and it took nine officers using riot equipment to remove him from the police vehicle and get him to police HQ.
The court heard Lobban’s ex-partner, Ms Purvey, was in the club with friends when she saw him arriving. She told him to go away or she would call police.
Lobban then assaulted Ms Purvey, Brodie Purvey and Andrew Scrimgeour.
Upstairs, he took hold of a large whisky barrel and attempted to throw it down the stairwell but was prevented from doing so by a customer and ejected from the club.
Solicitor Jim Laverty said Lobban had been on medication and had been drinking to excess due to his personal difficulties.
Lobban admitted eight charges of breach of the peace, assault, breach of bail and resisting arrest, all on October 13.
He also admitted that on April 28 2018, outside a house at Dunmore Street, he assaulted PC Euan Mitchell, by spitting on him.
He further admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner at police HQ on the same date.
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