A football fan has been found guilty of “recklessly” throwing a bar stool at customers in a Dundee pub.
John Meikle, 31, threw the stool, which hit at least one person in the bar, after a Dundee United v Hearts game on April 27 last year.
Meikle, of Wester Drylaw Park, Edinburgh, was travelling with a group of visiting fans heading home from the game, en route to the train station, when they stopped off in Lloyds Bar on Seagate.
Barmaids said the group had discussed football at the bar before Meikle suddenly picked up the stool and threw it.
Sheriff Kenneth McGowan, who found him guilty at Dundee Sheriff Court, told Meikle: “In relation to throwing the bar stool, the CCTV evidence was consistent with the evidence that that was what had happened.”
Meikle’s defence lawyer had attempted to claim that witnesses would be unlikely to remember the event properly, given it was almost a year on and that CCTV footage from the incident was far from clear.
The defence also suggested there was no evidence the throwing of the bar stool was football related.
However, Sheriff McGowan dismissed that argument, telling the court: “Football was discussed by the group they discussed the game. He was with the group at the bar and they followed him out after the incident.”
Sentence was deferred for reports until April 16.