by Craig Borland

A TEENAGER fuelled by a cocktail of drink and drugs repeatedly spat on police who went to help him after he was seen slumped on a railway station platform.

Emergency services rushed to Yoker station on July 27 after ScotRail CCTV camera operators saw a young male lying on the platform.

Two police constables who were first on the scene asked for an ambulance to attend to help 19-year-old Cameron Woods, who at first refused to answer any of the officers’ questions.

But after being treated by the ambulance crew, Woods began to shout and swear at two Police Scotland officers, spitting on the chest of one and the leg of the other.

Woods was restrained and had a spit hood applied before he was taken to Helen Street police station in Ibrox.

From there officers took him to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital to be assessed – and while at the hospital he spat on a third officer, this one from the British Transport Police.

Woods – who is already the subject of a community payback order – appeared for sentencing at Dumbarton Sheriff Court on August 18, when his solicitor, Mr Mitchell, said his client had only a vague recollection of what had happened.

Mr Mitchell told the court Woods suffered from ADHD and “very much regretted” his actions.

“His offending behaviour seems to be linked to his alcohol and drug misuse,” Mr Mitchell said, “and he fully expects a custodial sentence today.”

Nonetheless, Mr Mitchell asked Sheriff Gerry McMillan to consider a community sentence, saying that “early intervention would be helpful for him in the future”.

Sentencing Woods to six months in prison on the three separate assault charges, Sheriff Gerry McMillan said: “This behaviour was utterly, utterly, utterly reprehensible. It’s beyond disgusting to spit on anyone who is simply trying to do their job.”