A9 camper Charles Ingram fined £1000 for striking court officer who was enforcing eviction notice

A man who has camped at the side of the A9 for more than three years has admitted assaulting one of the court officials sent to evict him.

Charles Ingram struck Roderick Stevenson with a mug, causing him to bleed from the head.

The 69-year-old was removed from the site he has occupied since 2012 following an order made at the Court of Session.

Mr Stevenson was one of a number of Messengers-at-arms sent to enact the warrant on Wednesday morning.

At Perth Sheriff Court today, the pensioner pled guilty to assaulting Mr Stevenson at layby 52 on the A9, near Blair Atholl, by striking him on the head with a mug, to his injury, on September 30.

Sheriff Lindsay Foulis fined Ingram, of no fixed abode, £1000 and ordered him to pay £100 compensation.