Three men were detained after an alleged disturbance of the Stornoway-to-Ullapool ferry on Saturday evening, police have now confirmed.
Passengers and crew were said to have become frightened and felt threatened by the behaviour of three men during the voyage to Ullapool on the MV Loch Seaforth and the captain was alerted.
Passenger area on the Loch Seaforth
The captain contacted police and officers were waiting when the ferry docked at the Ross-shire port.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed that a van was stopped with assistance from a road policing unit after it had come off the ferry at Ullapool. Two men, aged 35 and 36, were detained by officers but a third man gave them the slip and was seen by members of the public being chased through the streets.
He was eventually found and also detained and he turned out to be a 20-year-old who was wanted on an apprehension warrant issued in the Kilmarnock area. His two colleagues are now also charged with perverting the course of justice in connection with incorrect details being given to police officers.
Police stressed that it was a road policing unit that was involved in the incident at Ullapool and not an armed response unit as witnesses may have thought. It is understood the three men detained are not local to the north of Scotland.
It is still not known if the three men who were detained were the same ones who had caused concern by their behaviour on Harris last week.
I am not surprised by this, and it is not the first time the police have been involved after loutish behaviour has upset passengers and crew. This is the direct result of not having a bar on the ship, where excessive drinking and loutish behaviour can be controlled and contained. We told you so.
Not having a bar being the cause !! what rubbish .Behaviour like this is really once in a blue moon Calmac Calum and NOTHING to do with there being no bar.”behave yourself man” !!