HSS Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Gowser is to stand trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court in Dec for acting in a threatening and abusive manner and 3 charges of Police assault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo_j Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Gowser is to stand trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court in Dec for acting in a threatening and abusive manner and 3 charges of Police assault. I believe this is the main reason he stayed with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted October 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 I believe this is the main reason he stayed with us.The offences were commited on Aug 11th.Surely his decision would have been made before this date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murray street Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Was his "Fènian Army" involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Was his "Fènian Army" involved? hmm, he has previous to an extent...........no doubt swally will have been taken................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted October 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 HSS - do you have a link for this? I know that he was arrested in Airdrie when he was with Celtic in 2009. Hope it is old news and not a repeat.Aug 11th this year mate.No link but it's in the PDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted October 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Not seen PDE today but from what you have read it looks like a different incident to the one from a newspaper report in 21st Sep 2009 which is showing up on Google. Considering there is a 4 year time difference I would say it is a different incident!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie Bear Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 No problems....This is Paul McGowan the person not Paul McGowan the football player who is a subsiduary entity and just run by Paul McGowan the person. If there's fines or community service etc Paul McGowan the person can be listed as a naughty boy who has committed a crime under the influence of others while Paul McGowan the footballer gets on with his job as normal. Phil to announce on tannoy " Number 9.....Stephen Thompson .....Number 10....The Paul McGowan!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo_j Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 The offences were commited on Aug 11th.Surely his decision would have been made before this date? I'm sure there was mention back in May/June time about an issue about Paul....could have it completely wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethal89 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 It can take up to a year to hear anything back from the P.F, unless it's a statutory offence then they are usually time barred after 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray7 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambud Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Wonder if Danny can use this to tie him up on another 2 year contract similar to Gus providing a character reference for Kirky just before he signed a new contract, I guess it depends on whether there will be a custodial sentence or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvine_buddie Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Sounds like it could be serious if he has lashed out at police officers, could be journos exaggerating though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E=Mc2 Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Sounds like it could be serious if he has lashed out at police officers, could be journos exaggerating though. Or the police exaggerating? Just ask some guy on a bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvine_buddie Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Or the police exaggerating? Just ask some guy on a bike. Even if they were exaggerating he'd still be in big doodoo, who's gonna believe an overpaid footballer over 3 polis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murray street Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Even if they were exaggerating he'd still be in big doodoo, who's gonna believe an overpaid footballer over 3 polis? He shouted 'FREE PALESTINE' anaw as one of the constables had a big nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTOF Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I posted this rumour (at the time) as a friend had been told about on the Saturday after it happened. Sadly it has proved to be true. Not good news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethal89 Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 From what I understand there have been several meetings and things may not be as bleak as they first apper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zurich_allan Posted October 31, 2013 Report Share Posted October 31, 2013 I agree - all the more worrying. Does anyone know how long it takes the PF to review a case. I know of someone who had a case sent by CID to PF in February and there has been no news back from the PF. Maybe Zurich Allan knows how these bodies work. It really depends to be honest. The PF at the moment is absolutely swamped. I've sat in many cases this year where the first hour of business is taken up with nothing more than the Fiscal Depute pleading with various Judges to have extensions granted to the time bar in various cases due to not being ready to go to trial having not had time or resources to fully review cases and gather evidence. The problem is that the PF have had a freeze on permanent recruitment imposed by the Scottish Government for the past three and a half years, and so they can't take on new staff to deal with the backlog. That said, a time bar only comes into effect if the charge stems from a statutory breach of the law. If the charge is a common law one, then there isn't a legally enforceable time bar. Also, a time bar only exists prior to the Fiscal deciding whether or not to proceed with a case. Once they've decided to go ahead, they can commence proceedings to allow pleadings to be made and then adjourn them for as long as they choose, again with no legally enforceable time bar as such. That said, there is a legally accepted principle that somebody is entitled to expect the justice process to be completed in a reasonable time, and should not have to have a potential criminal case hanging over them indefinitely, and at a hearing when the Fiscal Depute requests an adjournment, the lawyer of the accused is entitled to challenge that adjournment and argue that it is prejudicial to the accused who is effectively already being punished if held on bail in perpituity etc. In my experience, a Judge will be happy to adjourn a case based on resource reasons / lack of witnesses etc. ONCE, but on request a second time they tend to get quite annoyed and tell the Fiscal to either proceed with the case or be prepared to drop it unless there are exceptional circumstances in the public interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hambud Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 (edited) how do you know it is a fact Nicky? Edited November 1, 2013 by davidg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyg Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 It's Mr McGowan who requires a good lawyer at this time , his people will be trying to keep him out the clink , they'll hardly be scouring the websites to see who's talking about it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaside Nipper Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Well, fairly dodgy in here today, some of the content on this thread is sailing very close to the acceptable legal edge .....................jist sayin like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isabella Duke Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 It's Mr McGowan who requires a good lawyer at this time , his people will be trying to keep him out the clink , they'll hardly be scouring the websites to see who's talking about it ! Indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
div Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Think this one has gone as far as it needs to go, and a lot further in some cases. Let's leave the authorities to deal with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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