Dundee United legend Ralph Milne banned from Carnoustie amid assault allegations

Dundee United legend Ralph Milne denied assaulting a woman when he appeared from custody at Arbroath Sheriff Court on Monday.

Milne, 52, pled not guilty at the first calling of the case, which relates to the alleged assault of a woman in Ravensby Park Gardens in Carnoustie on Sunday.

The charge alleges that Milne grabbed the woman by the head, seized her around the neck, forced her head towards a cooker and frying pan of hot fat and repeatedly punched her on the head to her injury.

Milne, who stays in Arbroath Road, Dundee, was granted bail by Sheriff Peter Paterson with the condition that he not enter Carnoustie.

Sheriff Paterson said: “A condition of bail is that you don’t speak to, text, email or contact the complainer in any way. If she contacts you, you ignore her.

“You are not to enter Carnoustie at all.”

A trial is scheduled for August 7, with an intermediate diet set for July 23.

Milne was part of United’s league winning side in 1983 and was inducted into the club’s Hall of Fame in 2009.