A professional boxer's career is in tatters after he was convicted of brawling with police when a 40th birthday party descended into chaos.
Scott Allan, who is due to fight for the Scottish bantamweight title next month, faces being stripped of his boxing licence after he fought officers at a party for his girlfriend Nicole Edgar's father.
He and members of her family were involved in scuffles with officers who had been called to a disturbance at the venue where Colin Edgar's party was being held.
Edgar, 41, a farmer, his daughter and his wife Angela, 44, were arrested for assaulting police who attended at the party at the Bucks Head hotel in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire.
Following a trial at Hamilton Sheriff Court, Allan and the Edgars, of East Kilbride, were convicted of taking part in the fracas in March last year.
Allan, 23, of Shotts, quit a successful career in kickboxing to turn professional and is due to fight for the title later this month against Dundee's Jamie Wilson after being signed up by fellow professional Willie Limond's management company.
He had claimed he fought with plain clothed officers after they had "manhandled" his partner Nicole, 24, and exposed her private parts.
Police constable Barry McGuire, 33, told how Allan confronted him in the street and started throwing punches at him before spitting blood at his colleagues.
He said: "He started throwing punches and I punched him back.
"I told him I was a police officer but he failed to desist and was being very aggressive.
"When we got him in the police car he was constantly making threats throughout the whole journey to the police office and had to be restrained.
"He was saying 'I'm a world champion, you are f****** dead'. He was boasting about people he knew in the fight game, world champions like Ricky Burns."
Allan, whose nickname is 'Title Taker', was convicted of assaulting four police officers, resisting arrest and acting in a threatening and abusive manner.
He told the court: "I just saw two plain clothes men manhandling my girlfriend. I reacted in the same way any guy would have."
Nicole Edgar said a number of police officers had burst into the party and ordered them to leave because there had been an incident in the bar downstairs.
The support worker, who has been suspended from her job, claimed her black dress rode up after she was pinned against the bonnet of a police car by two officers.
She said: "I wasn't wearing underwear but they wouldn't let me fix my dress.
"I was so embarrassed and angry. I was calling them 'perverts' but they didn't seem bothered.
"I had just saw my mum and dad being arrested for nothing."
The officers denied her claims and said she had been acting aggressively and assaulted one of them.
Sheriff Douglas Brown fined Mr Edgar Pounds 350 for his part in the incident. His wife and daughter were admonished.
He warned Allan he had been convicted of "serious charges" and deferred sentence on him until December for background reports.
Allan was the undefeated WKA World Professional Kickboxing Bantamweight Champion before he gave up his title to turn pro as a boxer last year.
He is set to take on Wilson at Bellahouston Sports Centre in Glasgow next month for the Scottish Bantamweight title.
Robert Smith, of the British Boxing Board of Control, who licence fighters, said: "We are awaiting information from the authorities about this case.
"Once we have received that it is likely his licence will be suspended."
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