A second Highland police officer faces "manure" allegations
A second police officer has been charged with the abduction of two 15 year-old two girls and making them stand in manure.
Stuart Kelman, (29), now faces the abduction charge after the case was called for a second time at Tain Sheriff Court on Monday.
Originally only his Northern Constabulary colleague PC Robert Ovenstone, (30), was charged with abducting the girls on July 19 last year and taking them to a barn at Balintraid Farm, Delny near Invergordon.
But when the case called for the second time Kelman also faced the abduction allegation and that the girls were compelled to stand in animal manure after they were released them from handcuffs and made to walk down a farm track in their stocking soles
Both policemen have also been charged behaving in a threatening or abusive manner likely to cause fear and alarm to the girls when they were handcuffed.
It is alleged the officers told the girls they previously had taken a person to the barn and that person had lost three teeth against a wall.
The charge also alleges that they told the girls if they did not behave themselves they would suffer the same fate and threatened the girls that they would have to walk home in the hours of darkness in their stocking soles.
In a further allegation and on the same day, Ovenstone is charged with behaving in a threatening or abusive manner, threatening to strike a 13-year-old schoolboy with his police baton and presenting the baton at him.
Neither Ovenstone nor Kelman, whose addresses were given as care of Northern Constabulary Police HQ, Perth Road, Inverness, have appeared in court.
Craig Wood solicitor for Kelman and David Hunter for Ovenstone asked Sheriff David Sutherland for the case to be continued without plea for a second time.
It will call again on June 1.
