Man in court over 'threat to partner' after police car crash

The M8 crash involved two Mercedes cars and an unmarked police car

A man arrested after a crash involving in a police car on the M8 in Glasgow has appeared in court accused of threatening his partner.

Dylan Hood, 27, was arrested at Holly Young's home in Glasgow's Bridgeton area on Thursday.

He had been in custody the previous day after the three-vehicle crash in which seven people, including two police officers, were injured.

It is claimed that he behaved in a threatening or abusive manner towards Ms Young before being arrested.

Mr Hood's appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court came as a 48-year-old police officer and two men aged 43 and 39 remain in a critical condition.

They were taken to hospital after a Mercedes A45 collided with an unmarked police Volvo and another Mercedes on the hard shoulder, near junction 13, at about 13:10 on Wednesday.

A 38-year-old police officer and a 31-year-old man are in a serious condition in hospital.

Mr Hood and a 31-year-old man were treated for minor injuries.

The charges against Mr Hood allege that he climbed onto a balcony at Ms Young's flat and entered the property when he was uninvited.

He is then said to have gone to sleep in her bed and he allowed himself to be discovered there by her causing her alarm.

Mr Hood faces a separate charge of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards police officers at the flat.

'Flight risk'

It is claimed he repeatedly shouted and swore at officers as well as refused to desist when asked to do so.

A third charge alleges that Mr Hood resisted, obstructed or hindered officers by flailing his arms above his head, tensing his body and pulled his arms to the front of his body in an attempt to avoid the application of handcuffs.

The fiscal depute asked for bail not to be granted and claimed that Mr Hood was a flight risk.

Declan O'Keefe, defending, replied: "I'm bewildered that he is a flight risk as he is a man born and raised in Glasgow.

"He has only left the country a handful of times on holiday. It's not true."

Sheriff Owen Mullan granted Mr Hood bail to his mother's address in Livingston, West Lothian, and imposed a bail condition that he not contact Ms Young or enter her property.

A further hearing has been fixed for next month.