The police in Tain

Sheriff Jamie Gilchrist QC criticised Ovenstone's behaviour.
He said: "You described your actions as old fashioned policing, harking back to some apparent golden age of policing - if it ever existed - where it is claimed matters were dealt with by a clip round the ear. It is worrying and astonishing that a police officer could be so lacking in judgement. Police have to treat everyone justly and fairly instead of approaching a challenge by using terror as a means of control."
The court heard that Kelman told Ovenstone "that's enough" when the girls were told to walk down the manure-scattered farm track in darkness and in their stocking soles.
The court had heard that the girls were handcuffed and driven to a manure scattered farmyard by Robert Ovenstone and Stuart Kelman.
A charge of abducting the two girls was dropped by the Crown.
The tired but feisty “Tie me Didgeridoo Down” entertainer Rolph Harris is seemingly still under investigation, albeit not by Tain police.