Two men who were involved in a one-vehicle car crash in Moray on Monday have pleaded not guilty to unrelated charges.
Robert Stewart, 26, and James Stewart, 22, appeared at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday, charged with alleged incidents of vandalism and threatening and abusive behaviour that occurred on March 30 at Pansport Road in Elgin and Pitairlie Walk in Elgin on April 1.
Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges and were released on bail until July with a number of special conditions, including being prohibited from entering Pitairlie Walk.
It is alleged that they willfully and recklessly destroyed a property there by striking two windows with a piece of wood causing damage to them and threatened a man with violence at McColls on Pansport Road.
James Stewart was given a restriction of liberty order until July 12, when he would have to return to court to face an intermediate trial.
They were two of the five occupants of a silver Ford Focus that crashed on the A98 Buckie to Cullen road near Findochty on Monday night.
Police and three ambulance crews attended the scene with all five men taken to Dr Gray’s Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Three of them were later arrested, but only two of them were charged with the unrelated alleged crimes.
At a hearing yesterday, James Stewart’s solicitor Stephen Carty explained that his client had a number of injuries due to a road traffic accident that occurred earlier in the week.
They both had a number of cuts and bruises when they appeared at the court.
Police confirmed inquiries were ongoing into the crash on Monday night.
