Councillor in court on '˜12th' charges
The 44-year-old from Beechwood Avenue is charged with assaulting and resisting a police officer. He is also charged with ‘making insulting and threatening comments to persons participating in a parade with intent to provoke a breach of the peace’.
A fourth charge alleges McShane - who sits on Coleraine-based Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council - ‘organised and participated in’ an unnotified ‘protest meeting’.At Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday a police officer said he believed he could connect McShane to the charges.In the dock of Coleraine Court, the councillor said he understood the charges. A defence solicitor told the court there was a number of Police Ombudsman investigations involving two complaints from his client and one from himself.
He said there had been”pre-action proceedings” served on the PSNI. McShane was released on his own bail of £250. The case was adjourned to November 14.