LAWYERS for a man accused of “recklessly producing household electricity” with a bizarre home made transformer yesterday branded the charges against him “irrelevant and incompetent”.
Charles McKenzie is alleged to have rigged up a “dangerous transformer assembly” at his flat in Dundee’s Dudhope Court.
It is alleged he “culpably and recklessly” produced electricity “with total disregard for the safety of himself and others”.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that prosecutors allege he rigged up a “man-made assembly in his house suspended from the ceiling by ropes, with a car battery and cans of petrol nearby”.
Yesterday Mike Short, defending, told the court: “I challenge the charge as it presently stands there is a plea to its competence and relevancy.
“No crime is described known to the law of Scotland and no relative narrative to who is endangered is there either.
“You have to be more specific under the law.”
McKenzie (55), of Dudhope Court, Dundee, was not in court to face the charge of culpable and reckless conduct.
