Former Celtic star Anthony Stokes has appeared in court wearing handcuffs after flying from Ireland to answer a warrant for his arrest almost a year after it was issued.
He flew from Dublin on Tuesday and handed himself in to a Glasgow police station, where he was held overnight before appearing at Hamilton Sheriff Court yesterday.The 35-year-old footballer had been due to be sentenced for bombarding his ex-girlfriend Eilidh Scott with offensive text messages.But he failed to appear last September and the court was told he had ignored calls from social workers trying to create background reports on him.In 2019, Stokes admitted a stalking campaign in which he bombarded Scott with a string of abusive messages that saw him send 100 texts a day on WhatsApp and email.He turned up at her home in Shotts, Lanarkshire, late at night and demanded to know her whereabouts.
The campaign of abuse lasted between July 2018 and February 2019.Another arrest warrant was issued for him in 2021 after he also failed to appear to be sentenced.
Hours after that warrant was taken, brazen Stokes posted a selfie on social media with the caption: “Any bad news?”In July last year he was arrested in Northern Ireland and later appeared in court via video link and was granted bail but again failed to appear.Last month he was spotted in Spain posing for photos with his new girlfriend at a luxury hotel in Barcelona.Yesterday, Sheriff Ross Macfarlane KC branded Stokes a potential “flight risk” but granted bail after hearing he had secured an address in Scotland.
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