The frontman of one of Perth’s most successful bands has admitted taking what he believed to be cocaine during a boozy 18th birthday party.
Red Pine Timber Company’s Gavin Munro is on trial at Perth Sheriff Court accused of assaulting former bandmate Michael MacLennan, who played drums with the group for four years.
Munro is also said to have caused significant damage to Mr MacLennan’s home, smashing his head through doors, punching palls and tearing light fittings from the ceiling.
He also faces three charges of making inappropriate sexual comments towards three women between 2010 and 2014.
The assault on Mr MacLennan, whose 18th birthday it was, is said to have taken place on November 16, 2014.
Giving evidence in his own defence at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday, Munro claimed that Mr MacLennan had given him drugs and had taken some himself.
Munro went on to claim that the comments to one of the women were “body banter” and “sexual banter”.
Munro, of Seals Bank, Bridge of Earn, denies seven charges, including making inappropriate sexual comments to three women at addresses in Perthshire.
He also denies assaulting Mr MacLennan at an address in Bridge of Earn on November 16, 2014 by repeatedly punching him on the head and pinning him against a car bonnet to his injury and threatening violence to him and refusing to leave the premises.
Munro is also accused of repeatedly punching walls, punching and butting doors and light fittings and damaging them.
A final charge alleges that he shouted swore and uttered threats of violence to two people at the Green Rooms in Perth, brandished a bar stool, issued challenges to fight and sent threatening and abusive text messages.
The trial, before Sheriff Gillian Wade, continues.
