A drunk man with a grudge trashed an Aberdeen bar by throwing stools around and challenging patrons and staff to a fight.
Terry Brannan took umbrage with being thrown out of the Sure Hotel on the Lang Stracht for being “rowdy” so on his next visit a fortnight later he caused a bar brawl, Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told.
His aggressive antics were caught on security camera and by a guest who filmed him flinging bar stools around, challenging the barmaid and guests to a fight, and even trying to prise the top off the bar.
Fiscal depute Jennifer Pritchard said police were called to the 45-bedroom Best Western Hotel in Summerhill Court at around 10.45pm on May 21 this year and again during Brannan’s destructive return visit on June 7 at 10pm.
Flung bar stools around
“He ordered and drank two pints of Guinness before engaging with a group of hotel guests who were sitting nearby,” Ms Pritchard said of his first visit.
“A barmaid attended at the office to get another colleague as the accused had started to become rowdy within the bar area.”
When that colleague asked him to leave he did so briefly before returning to shout and swear at staff. He eventually left the three-star hotel and was traced by police later that evening.
Just over a fortnight later he returned with another man and immediately began shouting that he’d had his “head stamped on” during his last visit.
When he accused the barmaid of having called the police on him she retreated to the back office to raise the alarm and then watched the drama unfold on CCTV.
Filmed by a hotel guest
“An individual in the bar also began recording the accused on her mobile phone,” the fiscal added.
“He continued to shout and swear before picking up a pint glass and smashing it on the bar and ground.
“He then picked up three bar stools and threw them across the room while trying to entice other patrons within the bar to a fight.
“He then started to prise the countertop from the bar however was stopped by other patrons on two occasions.”
He left shortly after and was picked up by police at his Summerhill Road home before spending the night in custody.
Brannan admitted two charges of acting in a threatening or abusive manner.
Mixed medication and booze
Defence agent Debbie Ginniver said there was a link between his mental health difficulties, his alcohol use and his offending.
Said he’d been mixing prescription medication and alcohol at the time.
Sheriff Andrew Miller called for psychiatric reports to be carried out and deferred sentencing until October.
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