Posted on 03/09/2021 6:20:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
petition has amassed nearly 1100 signatures, urging people to boycott Martin Stewart's band, ‘Another Filthy Weekend’ after he confronted police naked and covered in blood.
A crazed Strathaven dog owner stabbed and tried to strangle his pet Labrador while claiming he was God and the world was about to end.
Martin Stewart’s horrified partner tried desperately to intervene as he hung the helpless dog with its lead from a door handle.
He then stabbed the pooch twice in the stomach before turning the knife on himself, stabbing his neck.
Stewart – naked and covered in blood – then confronted police officers, warning that he’d been “commanded” to kill them.
Sheriff Thomas Millar heard details of the shocking events at Hamilton Sheriff Court last week.
On Friday, 32-year-old Stewart admitted threatening or abusive behaviour and dog cruelty at his home in Rokeby Crescent on May 22 last year.
He also admitted assaulting two police officers, but charges of possessing cannabis and resisting arrest were dropped.
Jennifer Cunningham, prosecuting, said Stewart – a professional musician – has no previous convictions.
Now a petition has been launched online to boycott music made by Stewart, which can be streamed on services such as Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music. Ms Cunningham told the court how his partner had noticed his mood was “low” in the days prior to the incidents.
His partner had woken up during the night and gone downstairs.
She then heard one-year-old Labrador Fergus squealing and went back upstairs to find Stewart had the dog in a headlock.
He was applying pressure to its neck and the dog’s eyes were “rolling”.
Ms Cunningham told the court: “She tried to pull the dog away from him, but fell.
“The dog ran from the room and went downstairs. Stewart’s partner was unable to calm him down.
“He was running about, saying she was the Queen of Scotland and the world was going to end in two days.
“The accused ran downstairs and put the lead round the dog’s neck.
“He looped the other end through the handle of the front door and pulled so that the dog was lifted off the floor, suspended by its neck.
“His partner put her arm under the dog, screaming at Stewart to stop as Fergus was choking.
“She then ran outside and phoned 999.
“When she returned she saw the accused stab the dog twice in the abdomen with a kitchen knife.
“The woman tried to wrestle the knife from Stewart who then stabbed himself in the neck.” Police officers arrived to find Stewart “naked and saturated from head-to-toe in blood”.
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He ran towards them, performing a lewd act as he did so.
The officers ordered Stewart’s partner to barricade herself in the living room.
He told them “God has commanded me to kill you both. Time to f...... die.”
Stewart lunged at one officer, trying to scratch and punch him, and kicked the other.
He continued to make bizarre comments such as “I’m God. I’m here to kill you. I’m going to end the world.”
The officers used their batons and discharged incapacitating spray to little effect.
Finally, a baton blow to the stomach knocked Stewart to the floor and he was subdued.
He was taken to hospital where his neck wound was stitched.
The dog was treated by an emergency vet. Its stab wounds were stitched and it has made a full recovery.
The court heard that, despite the traumatic events, Stewart and his partner remain a couple, with his defence agent submitting a letter of support from her.
The solicitor said his client was examined by a psychiatrist and was found fit to plead to the charges.
A campaign urging people to “boycott” music made by Stewart has garnered large support online.
A petition had amassed nearly 1100 signatures as the News went to press, urging people to boycott his band, ‘Another Filthy Weekend’.
After signing the petition, one woman wrote: “That individual is a disgrace and has no place in the limelight.
“Sickening.”
Another wrote: “Cruelty to animals is the most heinous crime ever. It should be punishable in the same way as assault against people.
“This man is disgusting and needs jailed.”
The social media channels of the band have been removed.
Sheriff Millar called for a criminal justice social work report and deferred sentence until next month.
Stewart remains on bail.
Drugs are bad, M’Kay?
LOL!
M’Kay....
Bath salts...
Lead singers are a pita to work with...
“It’s only rock and roll, but I like it.”
It’s a good thing the cops got there before Salamander.
Reporters these days. Notice that this one didn’t even try to find out if his partner really was the Queen of Scotland?
It starts with something else...
Ahh, better living through chemicals.
Syd barrett
“and the world was going to end in two days.”
I thought we still had ten years!
“That individual is a disgrace”
She then added:
You got mud on your face, you big disgrace
Kicking your can all over the place
Thank God the dog recovered; too bad Stewart recovered also.
He’s just an excitable guy.
Boycott the band, that’ll get’m straight. Works all the time.
Just another evening with the Bidens.
Britspeak for husband or wife. Or possibly significant other. In this case his partner is female.
M’kay!!
“This man is disgusting and needs jailed.”
No, that’s not what he needs.
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