A police officer is accused of assaulting and “ridiculing” a man whose lower clothing fell down while being held.
Kevin McFarlane, 40, will stand trial over alleged events in Glasgow’s Carntyne on June 10 last year. Court papers claim McFarlane seized the man and pulled him from a police vehicle to the ground, resulting in the man’s lower clothing falling down and exposing intimate parts of his body.
The charge says the man was left on the ground before McFarlane seized him again. It is claimed the man was lifted and then pushed into a police vehicle while still exposed.
A separate charge says McFarlane behaved in a threatening or abusive manner.
It alleges the man was told to calm down and threatened that if he did not, McFarlane would not pull the clothing up. The accusation claims McFarlane also “ridiculed and laughed” at him because he was exposed.
McFarlane pled not guilty to the two charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court. A trial was fixed for next January by Sheriff Anna Reid. McFarlane remains on bail.
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