Pair admit caging and attacking man inside Kirkcaldy garage

Man was sprayed with brake cleaner during workplace ordeal

Workplace bullies at a Kirkcaldy garage caged their victim in a metal container and sprayed him with brake cleaner.

Ryan Donnelly, 31, and Alexander Watson, 44, will be sentenced next month after admitting a series of assaults at Craignairn Ltd on Forth Avenue Industrial Estate.

At Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court yesterday, they pled guilty to seizing the man, placing him in a metal container and preventing him from escaping from it, in March this year.

Donnelly, of Letham Gait in Dalgety Bay, admitted a further charge of assaulting the man on various dates between September 1 of last year and May 19, both dates inclusive.

He punched him on the body, sprayed brake cleaner on him, threw an airbag at him and sprayed paint in his face.

Donnelly also restrained the man and shaved off his eyebrows on March 21.

Watson, of Christie Place in Kirkcaldy, pleaded guilty to a charge of culpably and recklessly striking the man to the body with a screwdriver, or similar implement, to his injury during March.

A third accused, 43-year-old Paul Glancey who had faced three charges, was allowed to leave the dock after his not guilty pleas were accepted.

Sheriff Alastair Thornton called for reports, including a restriction of liberty order assessment and deferred sentence on the pair until November 23.

Donnelly and Watson’s bail was continued.

Ryan Donnelly, 31, and Alexander Watson, 44, will be sentenced next month.